On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:18:23AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > I was looking at my system processes and noticed that 'startlazarus' is > > consuming 26.7MB virtual memory & 14.5MB physical memory. Now I'm not 100% > > sure what the difference is between virtual and physical memory, but either > > way, it is a lot of memory considering that startlazarus doesn't really do > > anything serious, other than launch the lazarus binary. > > > > Do other users also see a similar memory usage? If so, why is it such a lot > > for a rather trivial application? > > Did you strip the debug info ?
Debug info is not loaded into mem? Interpreting Unix memory stats is notoriously difficult. I'd expect more that a certain percentage of the memory space is shared with X/GTK/glibc/threadlib. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus