#2278 BLOC Trial-2: Memory pressure on 128M laptops.

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#2278: Memory pressure on 128M laptops.
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  Reporter:  cjb          |       Owner:  cjb    
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  blocker      |   Milestone:  Trial-2
 Component:  performance  |     Version:         
Resolution:               |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment (by danw):

 Replying to [comment:6 marco]:
 > Loading an icon from the gtk theme eats > 4 MB!
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 > I think there are caches in place to avoid this

 Yeah, there are, and they're working; each process is sharing the same 4M
 cache, even though ps shows the 4M separately for each of them.

 And yes, it's gnome-icon-theme. From pmap:

   b60ec000   6292K r----  /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache

 so it's actually 6M...

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2278#comment:7>
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