Re: Nautilus, galeon and evolution taking huge amount of memory...

[Franck Martin <franck sopac org>]

So there is somethig absolutely wrong with ps or gtop. Because that's
what it does. Now if you compare nautilus to explorer from gtop you have
the feeling that Nautilus is 100 times bigger than explorer. Is that the
message we want to send: Linux takes more memory than its windows
counterpart...

BTW, how come my swap is full too?

Cheers
Franck

On 24 Jul 2001 16:37:34 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2001, Franck Martin wrote:
> 
> >
> > I know that the above applications are still in infancy stage, but is it
> > normal that they take so much memory? I have Nautilus as desktop and it
> > is taking about 100MB of memory, evolution takes same amount and oafd is
> > at about 50MB...
> >
> > I suspect some huge memory leaks too...
> >
> > For Nautilus it seems there is a fork of each nautilus for each of the
> > desktop icon, plus the desktop or about 8 main processes with each of
> > them exactly the same amount of memory used whatever I do. Is top
> > reporting correctly?
> 
> Note that when you see multiple processes with the same name of the same
> size in ps (such as for nautilus), often it is a threaded application.
> For threaded applications, the threads are sharing the address space, so
> summing each process's address space size will give a _very_ inaccurate
> figure.
> 
> James.