bittorrent support

[Soren Harward]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Nanno Langstraat <langstr at gmail.com> wrote:
>  virt   res  shr
>  361m   55m  22m  firefox
> 1026m  114m  45m  amarok
>
>
> I don't need Amarok on Commodore 64, but this is getting a bit much, no?

Most of what you're seeing is Amarok's extensive use of shared
libraries, unlike Firefox which is more self-contained:

$ pmap -d `pidof amarok`
[ ... trimmed ... ]
mapped: 1118312K    writeable/private: 210208K    shared: 184360K

$ pmap -d `pidof firefox`
[ ... trimmed ... ]
mapped: 963316K    writeable/private: 599376K    shared: 1344K

Amarok can (and probably should) use its own memory more efficiently,
but it's not going to have a huge effect on the "mapped" size because
so much of Amarok's functionality (and thus memory usage) lies in
shared libs.

-- 
Soren Harward