Memory usuage

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sun Dec 17 22:47:58 GMT 2006


John Tapsell wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>  I am having a terrible time with memory usage.  KSysguard takes up
>22MB of real memory for just showing the process list.
>
>  I've ran valgrind's massif  tool to try to find out what's using
>memory, but there's nothing specific that I can pin down.
>
>  Any ideas why it takes up so much memory?

How much of those 22 MB are the size of the shareable code from Qt (core, 
ui, d-bus, svg, xml), KDE core and ui?

Measure how much memory you had free before running ksysguard and how much 
you have now. See Luboš Luňák's somewhat recent blog on measuring memory 
consumption for information on how to do it. (Or he can post a reply here 
too...)

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