On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Yosef Meller wrote: > Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > This is not "the usual stuff to reduce memory consumption". Is there a > > process (or two) that eat most of the memory? > > > > This is what usually what gets recommended in forums and such. What do > you consider 'the usual stuff' (if there is such a thing?) > > The largest process I could find is Xorg, which (according to pmap) > consumes about 150M, very little of it is libc and libdl.
please note that the memory reported for the X server normally also contains the RAM of the display controller - which is not part of RAM. if, for example, your display controller has 64MB of RAM, then almost 64MB of the 150MB reported for the X server are of this memory. (not that it matters - it's still likely that even with "only" 90MB of RAM usage, the X server is the largest pig). > > Why do you think that recompilation will help with memory consumption? > > Reduction in executable size, mostly achievable by removing unnecessary > features, but a bit by better-optimised output, and I thought maybe > someone could tell me something about stripping (default in Gentoo) and > other techniques. Also, empirical data: the previously mentioned Gentoo > system that was compiled from scratch (and I had two other comparable > Gentoo systems in thee past). You can question my data, as I can't get > it now, but I know what I know. you'll have to forgive oleg for not understanding why you're bothered - he probably did not mess with gentoo and with its ebuild system. you should ask yourself - why did you neglect gentoo and switch to kubuntu? kubuntu, as far as i know, does not try to optimize the low memory consumption. any binary distribution cannot do that easily. if this memory consumption issue outweights what you gain from kubuntu (and i imagine you made the switch in order to gain something) - then switch back to gentoo. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
