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List:       licq-main
Subject:    Re: [Licq-main] licq uses 32.000 KB memory??
From:       Jan Houtsma <jan () houtsma ! net>
Date:       2000-03-28 8:45:47
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:46:36PM +0200, Per Lejontand wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:37:16PM +0200, Jan Houtsma wrote:
> 
> > Thats the total memory size of licq.
> > Thats even more than X does and half of what i have as
> > physical RAM in my PC. Isn't that a little bit much? 
> Let me guess, you are running linux right? Linux sucks at threadhandling
> and this is probably what's confusing you ..  you did something like:
> 
> per@chili ~ >ps wuax | grep licq
> per       6219  0.0  4.0  6616  5152  p1 S   Mar 25   0:00 /home/per/bin/licq 
> per       6225  0.0  4.0  6616  5152  p1 S   Mar 25   0:00 /home/per/bin/licq 
> per       6226  0.0  4.0  6616  5152  p1 S   Mar 25   0:02 /home/per/bin/licq 
> per       6227  0.0  4.0  6616  5152  p1 S   Mar 25   0:00 /home/per/bin/licq 
> per       6228  0.0  4.0  6616  5152  p1 S   Mar 25   0:35 /home/per/bin/licq 
> 
> and them summed all the memory figures right? Wrong. Linux displays
> each thread as a separate process. In my case licq uses 6616kbyte of ram,
> not 5*6616k's .. Each thread has it's own stack, the main heap, text etc
> are all shared .. 
> 
jan      27153  0.0  5.9 10844 3720 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 licq
jan      27246  0.0  5.9 10844 3720 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 licq
jan      27247  0.0  5.9 10844 3720 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 licq
jan      27248  0.0  5.9 10844 3720 ?        S    Mar26   0:00 licq
jan      27249  0.0  5.9 10844 3720 ?        S    Mar26   1:21 licq

Over here its still lots more. But not 32MB as i thought before. 
Dunno what gtop was showing me there.

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