[Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

[Bernie Innocenti]

On 05/25/09 12:18, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> matchbox, according to ps_mem.py is 2.5MiB (private) + 430.5
> MiB(shared) with Browse.xo and Terminal.xo open on my development XO
> after 3 days uptime.
> 
> 'top' says 9644 RSS, 5436 Res, but the more I use the smap data
> (parsed by ps_mem.py) the less I trust top's readings :-/
> 
> Perhaps it'd be better to get numbers with ps_mem.py ;-)

Indeed.  VMM is totally meaningless because it includes file mappings
for all libraries and things like that.  RSS varies with memory pressure
and includes shared pages, so it's an equally unreliable estimate.

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