Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

[Guillaume Cottenceau]

Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


[...]

> X is using 33MB but XMMS is showed has holding 4 processes as 11MB RAM
> each.  I noticed that Licq likes to open child processes, too.  Would
> the 50MB's of XMMS be a memory leak or is that just how it is?  I don't
> know if that size gets bigger as a night of MP3 playing goes, 'cuz I
> haven't played any, and I'm going to bed now.

Linux handles threading this way: from the processes point of view, it
spawns some new processes; but they are not "true" processes, and the
memory is not eated 11*4 Mbytes but only 11 Mbytes. (e.g. between threads,
memory is shared)



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