gnome-terminal has a weight problem

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Wed Nov 29 09:36:34 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 19:18 -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > Anyway if you want to examine actual memory maps / usage to get some real
> > > memory figures look at /proc/[PID]/smaps  rather tha top/ps. That file's 
> > > rather unpleasent to read, so its useful to post-process it
> > > 
> > >   http://people.redhat.com/berrange/mem-monitor/
> > > 
> > Would it be possible to get this into the next release of
> > gnome-system-monitor?
> gnome-system-monitor already reports resident memory usage of programs,
> and breaks that down into shared and private pieces

does it also account for shared pieces that nobody else is using? Since
that false sharing would underestimate the bloat from an app...




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