On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:37:56 +0000
"Peter Tribble" <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM, dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl>
> wrote:

> >>> I won't rebuild it. I cannot do that. But is it normal that
> >>> Gnome-Terminal needs 245MB of memory just for a few windows?
> 
> Is that total or resident? 
SIZE 236M
RES 32M
 
> On my OSOL box, running pmap on gnome-terminal shows that it's mapped
> a number of things - icon caches and fonts - that make it look big,
> and it also uses the medialib libraries that are about 60M. All this
> makes it look like it's using even more memory than it really does.
> (It's still no pixie, though.)

I got a bigger picture now. Thanks. So it's less bad as I thought.

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