The "iGoogle bug"

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> 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.

cool http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/memphis;a=tree
> 
> 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.

See also http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

cheers,
Pádraig.