xrestop and Amarok's pixmap usage

Seb Ruiz ruiz at kde.org
Sun Feb 7 13:12:41 CET 2010


On 7 February 2010 23:09, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Ahoy,
>
> Thiago gave me the tip to try "xrestop" (tool for showing X-Server
> memory usage), as I was wondering what's making my X-Server use so
> much memory. The result is a bit worrying:
>
>
> res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier
> 1600000    86    3    0  170  613    21490K     16K  21507K 10785 kwin
> 2c00000    33    4    0  323  455    14912K     11K  14924K 26552
> Telemann - Tafelmusik 1 Em  ::  Amarok
>
>
> So, Amarok uses a huge amount of pixmaps. I suppose it could be
> interesting to check sometime if we can reduce this amount a bit, if
> we want to conserve resources...

Is there a method of determining how much memory the SVG rendering is using?

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