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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How many processes?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-10-29 15:03:04
Message-ID: 200410291703.08952.bastian () kde ! org
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> Wouldn't it be a better idea to have multiple processes but the majority of
> code in a shared library?  That way you are conserving memory,  but if one
> crashes the rest are unaffected.

The memory used by the code itself is already shared between multiple 
instances of the same executable. Whether code is part of a shared library or 
part of an executable makes no difference in that regard.

However the non-shared data used by the average KDE process is substantial (in 
the order of 1Mb ¹) and by having multiple processes this data gets 
duplicated in ram. 

Cheers,
Waldo

¹) For a significant part, but not only, due to XIM and Xft.
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