OpenOffice (and others) memory usage...
Peter Arremann
loony at loonybin.org
Sun Dec 5 23:26:15 UTC 2004
Hi,
I've recently upgraded my laptop (dell 8500, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram, nvidia with
the stock nv driver, not the closed source nvidia.) from FC1 to FC3. I'm
really impressed with the progress but I have one major issue - the memory
usage of some of the applications. OpenOffice is definitly the worst but here
it goes:
Example OpenOffice:
Starting OpenOffice
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice
soffice.bin 143976 51996
Opening a 9 page document with very simple layout (25000 characters)
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice
soffice.bin 157708 68780
After typing the word hert and the rightclicking to get corrections:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice
soffice.bin 323336 234440
Example Mozilla:
Just after starting mozilla I see this:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla
mozilla-bin 97084 29392
After just visiting /. for a few stories the memory usage has grown to
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla
mozilla-bin 142016 44528
Example Kmail
Starting Kmail:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 44352 24276
After viewing 15 emails from ebay:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 49796 30760
After viewing 100 random emails (about 30% html, 70% plain text)
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 69144 47132
Viewing the same 100 emails one more time:
$ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail
kmail 78956 53624
Is anyone seeing the same problem - and if so, figured out what to do?
Peter.
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