Re: OK, what can I do about Opera's never-ending thirst for memory?!

Daniel Eckl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Kenny!

I think I am puzzled by all these values... I just read 16,5MB and
8,4MB? Where do I fail in interpreting the writings?

Best,
Daniel

2009/6/18 Kenneth Crudup <[email protected]>:
>
>> Also, I'm running, on the machine only running XVnc headless, a clone of
>> the very ~/.opera dir that's on my laptop, and will be checking for memory
>> usage on that box as well as I surf on it.
>
> Get this- the VM footprint of this setup has *decreased* from 1.6GB to
> just over 1GB; the actual resident is staying consistent at ~800MB.
>
> The NVidia-running version has gone from ~900MB to now at 1.7GB VM and
> resident of ~980MB.
>
> In either case the test isn't as thorough as normal yet 'cause I'm
> working, which isn't consistent with surfing sites that have, er,
> lots of pix in 'em. :)
>
> More later, but its really starting to look like the NVidia Binary blob
> is if not the reason, a conduit to this problem. Later on I'll look at
> some "xrestop" snapshots (running that constantly slows down X). Here's
> a snapshot of that, though, which implies it's not using as much mem
> as before:
>
> ----
> res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier
> 4400000  1519   29    1 1603  696     8448K     53K   8501K 11044 Java apps (JDownloader) and nvidia 180.* AND 185.* pro
> ----
>
> compare to before:
> ----
> res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier
> 4400000  1486   22    1 1371  652    16403K     51K  16455K 11044 Index of /unix/10-unite/x86_64-linux - Opera
> ----
>
>        -Kenny
>
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