The "iGoogle bug"

[Jim Gettys]

Bert,

Don't confuse virtual address space used with RAM consumed: most of that
is shared memory (glibc, pango, gtk+....).

That's why memphis was written and is in our build: ps gives very
misleading memory usage statistics, unless you really understand what it
is reporting.  It does a bit better job accounting for memory used in a
mere-mortal way to understand.

Even so, right now we'll find lots more RAM consumed that we'd like, due
to how python loads modules; we have schemes for fixing this using fork
and copy on write.
                             - Jim


On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:30 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> 
> Well, if the XO's calculator activity can take 20 MB RAM (+10MB  
> shared), then 2 MB for a clock seems small.
> 
> - Bert -
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