Re: [Evolution] Memory Usage

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

I think this is in the FAQ. This is a Linux bug. ps and top display each
thread of the program as a separate process. So what you're seeing there
is really 6 threads *sharing* 19M, not 6 processes each using 19M.

-- Dan

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 09:50, Ed wrote:
> Here's a snapshot from top.  Is it just me, or is this a HUGE amount of
> memory.  I've only got one instance of evo started, so why the massive
> hit to RAM?  Why six processes?  Oh, don't get me wrong, I LOVE THIS
> PROGRAM.  (User column removed for obvious reasons).
>
>
> PID   PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>
> 2305  15   0 19784  19M  8872 S     0.0  3.8   0:02 evolution-mail
> 2314  15   0 19784  19M  8872 S     0.0  3.8   0:00 evolution-mail
> 2315  16   0 19784  19M  8872 S     0.0  3.8   0:00 evolution-mail
> 2316  15   0 19784  19M  8872 S     0.0  3.8   0:01 evolution-mail
> 2317  15   0 19784  19M  8872 S     0.0  3.8   0:33 evolution-mail
> 2323  15   0 19784  19M  8872 S     0.0  3.8   0:00 evolution-mail
>
> Let me repeat, I LOVE THIS PROGRAM.
>
>
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