I am a developer relatively new to python and brand new to pygtk development. I wanted to write a bloglines tray icon notifier for my linux box. Everything is working quite well functionality wise, but the memory footprint is horrible.
This little tray icon that simply has a thread for updates, a gtk.StatusIcon, a few relatively small dict objects and a context menu is running at around 20-25 MB of memory. Doing some initial research, starting python up takes 1 MB, importing GTK bumps it up to 4 MB, importing other libraries jumps up to 7 MB and so on. IMO this code should take up a maximum of 2-4 MB (based on other linux tray icons and docking programs). Is this a problem with (a) python, (b) poor memory management of the python libraries I am using, especially py/gtk or (c) something I am doing wrong as a developer? For anyone who wants to help, the code is open source and can be viewed here: http://pybloglines.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pybloglines/ The "PyBloglinesNotifier" file is the main python program and imports code from within the bloglines folder. Thank you, Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
