OpenOffice (and others) memory usage...

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Peter Arremann wrote:

> 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:

Currently I have the following with gnome & mozilla & oowriter
running: (2 hour uptime) -

----
[root at asterix ~]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1035288     488388     546900          0      39240     278740
-/+ buffers/cache:     170408     864880
Swap:      2096440          0    2096440
[root at asterix ~]# ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soff
soffice.bin      184760 56600
[root at asterix ~]# ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep moz
mozilla-bin      102048 35124
[root at asterix ~]#
----

So, I'm not sure how to interpret the 184M for OO & 102M for mozilla -
as the total memory usage appears to be 170M (and no swap)

Also - whne 'free' shows a large memory usage - its mostly in
'ext3_inode_cache' - and this memory is released when a big IO job is
started (for eg: rpmbuild --rebuild kernel.src.rpm)

So - I'm not sure if there is a problem with FC3/memory usage.

Satish