Why does eggcups appear to map shared objects (code) twice?

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

>      1.  I  think  eggcups  is the process for printing. Why it takes up
>      more  than  40mb  memory?

In another thread someone noted that eggcups used a lot of memory.
Clearly to me it is too big a process to sit idle for most of the month
when I print one or two pages a month.  So I looked at it quickly.

When I looked at /proc/<PID-of-eggcups>/maps 
I see numerous apparent duplications and some triples
that I do not understand.

Here are examples.

  08048000-0804d000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 344956     /usr/bin/eggcups
  0804d000-08050000 rw-p 00005000 03:03 344956     /usr/bin/eggcups
  07bba000-07c7f000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 7716904    /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2
  07c7f000-07c82000 rw-p 000c5000 03:03 7716904    /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2
  0099a000-009bb000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 8306733    /lib/tls/libm-2.3.3.so
  009bb000-009bc000 r--p 00020000 03:03 8306733    /lib/tls/libm-2.3.3.so
  009bc000-009bd000 rw-p 00021000 03:03 8306733    /lib/tls/libm-2.3.3.so


Of the 160 mapped chunks the vast majority are apparently duplicated
and some are even triples.  The result is a footprint more than 2x
what I think is necessary.  I do suspect that much of this is virtual
memory magic but I lost my magic memory decoder ring.   Is this 
partly why the application "looks" so large>

Are these stack, heap, local variables and such for each library?

Thanks,
mitch


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