On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Peter Arremann wrote:
> I've recently upgraded my laptop (dell 8500, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram, nvidia with
> the stock nv driver, not the closed source nvidia.) from FC1 to FC3. I'm
> really impressed with the progress but I have one major issue - the memory
> usage of some of the applications. OpenOffice is definitly the worst but here
> it goes:
Currently I have the following with gnome & mozilla & oowriter
running: (2 hour uptime) -
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[root@asterix ~]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1035288 488388 546900 0 39240 278740
-/+ buffers/cache: 170408 864880
Swap: 2096440 0 2096440
[root@asterix ~]# ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soff
soffice.bin 184760 56600
[root@asterix ~]# ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep moz
mozilla-bin 102048 35124
[root@asterix ~]#
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So, I'm not sure how to interpret the 184M for OO & 102M for mozilla -
as the total memory usage appears to be 170M (and no swap)
Also - whne 'free' shows a large memory usage - its mostly in
'ext3_inode_cache' - and this memory is released when a big IO job is
started (for eg: rpmbuild --rebuild kernel.src.rpm)
So - I'm not sure if there is a problem with FC3/memory usage.
Satish
