On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:30:21PM -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> 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?
Somehow I would like to address the
Subject....
"Why does eggcups appear to map shared objects (code) twice?"
I doubt that eggcups is the only application that might display
this same /proc/*/maps anomaly.
> > 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?
> >
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