Re: Gkrellm's memory usage

Heya,

On 24/05/15 07:50, Mohammed Fukeeslum wrote:
> It's not a question strictly about gkrellm but do please explain - why
> by going from (32bit) kernel 3.14 to 3.18 memory usage goes from 11 to
> 17 megabytes on the same system?

That is really hard to tell, especially if the only change was a kernel
upgrade. One reason might simply be a changed forumula about what counts
as the "virtual memory" part of a process.
Also, a new kernel might trigger different code paths in the process (or
any of the libraries it uses) which opens more/different files or does
additional memory mappings.

Unless you see a steady increase of memory usage I wouldn't worry about it.

Regards,
Stefan