Memory usuage

[John Tapsell]

Lubos,
  I just posted about this actually in the "ksysguard is useless!!"  thread ;-)
KSysguard actually uses about 4-6MB

John

On 04/01/07, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 23:47, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > 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?
>
>  It does not really. Not more than comparable KDE applications, at least.
>
> > 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...)
>
>  Yes. Sorry it took a while, but there was this Xmas thingy, not reading mails
> and then reading them, and so on, and it also took a while to write:
>
>  http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/ (the analysis thing).
>
>  Comments and whatever are welcome, I don't know if it's actually
> understandable and usable ;) (I'd even move it to some wiki if I wasn't
> afraid people would ruin it with clueless changes).
>
> --
> Lubos Lunak
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