On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 18:04 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > 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. Eggcups is not running on my machine - just cupsd and I just printed some stuff to a network printer. It's part of desktop-printing which - I THINK - is part of gnome. Could it be that by my running KDE I don't have this bloat? > > 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. ________________________________________________________________________ Total Quality Management - A Commitment to Excellence http://www.TQMcube.com
