On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:25 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:55:25PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > Isn't inkscape still a memory pig? > > inkscape 0.44.1-1 in my tests has 56Mb peak virtual size on startup, and > 76Mb after loading the basic tutorial page. This would be an > appreciable proportion of the currently planned 128Mb on the platform. > > On startup (not on a B-test-1) > > VmPeak: 56068 kB > VmSize: 56068 kB > VmLck: 0 kB > VmHWM: 45420 kB > VmRSS: 45420 kB > VmData: 30068 kB > VmStk: 84 kB > VmExe: 4880 kB > VmLib: 17408 kB > VmPTE: 64 kB > > After loading basic tutorial page (not on a B-test-1) > > VmPeak: 73676 kB > VmSize: 73676 kB > VmLck: 0 kB > VmHWM: 60868 kB > VmRSS: 60868 kB > VmData: 46116 kB > VmStk: 84 kB > VmExe: 4880 kB > VmLib: 17480 kB > VmPTE: 80 kB > > > Can inkscape be tuned to not allocate > > absurd amounts of memory? > > It doesn't seem absurd given the functionality, but I imagine there > might be opportunities to trim. The inkscape developers may know more. > > > I invested in a 512M RAM upgrade just so I > > could run inkscape on moderately complex drawings. > > That seems excessive, and doesn't match my brief measurements. Were you > running other applications at the time? I've assumed the basic tutorial > is moderately complex. I don't know how this would compare to the > drawings used by the target market of 5 to 9 year olds.
Yes, this is very interesting information. I just brought this up on the Inkscape list. I think it raises an interesting question and underscores how memory leaks could bring OLPC (or other systems with limited resources) to its knees quickly. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
