Re: Performance issue with new gtk 2.0 for win32

--- In [email protected], Tor Lillqvist <tml@i...> wrote: 
> Oops, hadn't noticed that. Now I see there is also a "VM Size"
> column. But "VM Size" seems to be *less* than the "Mem Usage" for most
> processes? How can that be?

I hadn't noticed VM Size before either.  Now that I'm reading more
about it I'm finding there's a lot more to this stuff than I realized,
I really
only have a minimal understanding of virtual memory.

The short of it is that the "Mem Usage" figure includes shared memory
that a process uses, probably the most significant contributor to this
being shared DLLs.  "VM Size" is the amount of private virtual memory
committed to a process.

So I guess "VM Size" is more appropriate if you're curious about just
your program's allocations, and you don't have to worry about it
fluctuating when physical memory is swapped around.

Rich