> 1. I think eggcups is the process for printing. Why it takes up > more than 40mb memory? In another thread someone noted that eggcups used a lot of memory. Clearly to me it is too big a process to sit idle for most of the month when I print one or two pages a month. So I looked at it quickly. When I looked at /proc/<PID-of-eggcups>/maps I see numerous apparent duplications and some triples that I do not understand. Here are examples. 08048000-0804d000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 344956 /usr/bin/eggcups 0804d000-08050000 rw-p 00005000 03:03 344956 /usr/bin/eggcups 07bba000-07c7f000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 7716904 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2 07c7f000-07c82000 rw-p 000c5000 03:03 7716904 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2 0099a000-009bb000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 8306733 /lib/tls/libm-2.3.3.so 009bb000-009bc000 r--p 00020000 03:03 8306733 /lib/tls/libm-2.3.3.so 009bc000-009bd000 rw-p 00021000 03:03 8306733 /lib/tls/libm-2.3.3.so Of the 160 mapped chunks the vast majority are apparently duplicated and some are even triples. The result is a footprint more than 2x what I think is necessary. I do suspect that much of this is virtual memory magic but I lost my magic memory decoder ring. Is this partly why the application "looks" so large> Are these stack, heap, local variables and such for each library? Thanks, mitch -- T o m M i t c h e l l spam unwanted email. SPAM, good eats, and a trademark of Hormel Foods.
