[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] New city dialog (8a)

[Jules Bean <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:19:03PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:53:46PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > Hhm. While I'm writing this and playing with the dialog, X eats up
> > all my memory:
> > 
> > ----------------
> > USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> > root       497  3.7 29.8 99616 28432 ?       S    11:22   7:13 
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
> > chris      637  2.9 14.7 28752 14100 ?       S    11:24   5:43 kmail 
> > -caption KMail ...


> > Never seen this before. Just opening and switching a few cities
> > makes VSZ grow from 99616 to 104380.
> 
> This is normal. The X server just caches some stuff:
> 
>   PID USER     TTY       NI SWAP  RSS  SIZE WCHAN     STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME 
> COMMAND
>   829 root     ?          0    0  61M 62860 c012da25 S     0.9  9.7 115:50 X
> 

A lot of the X server consumption is the fact that it maps the
graphics card, these days.

> I would instead be worried about an email client which needs 28MB.

It's only 14M 'really': the 28 includes shared libraries which are
probably in use by other things too.

Jules