On 12 December 2011 09:29, Jeff Hoogland <jeffhoogl...@linux.com> wrote:
> Attached are the two outputs you requested, digging through them now to see > if I can pinpoint the issue. > Did you find out anything? I converted the outputs to csv, loaded them into an OpenOffice spreadsheet, summed up each category of memory and compared your 2 versions. The differences are really marginal, depending on the memory category sometimes in favor of the old and sometimes in favor of the new version. In terms of resident memory, which should be the most important measure (no swapping has occured) the new version is even 792 KiB (~ 7 %) smaller than the old one. Unless my conversion script really screwed up something and by accident the bug just happened to level out your obvserved 110 MiB difference such difference does not exist. If anybody wants my script and my spreadsheets to double check I can send them by personal mail. I don't want the flood the mailing list with big attachments, which are probably not of big interest for most readers. (There are also other tools to read smaps files on the net, I have never tried them.) Memory consumption in Linux is a tricky thing. There are many different categories to measure (that's why smaps was added some time ago to show them all or at least many of them). There is no single correct number. If the tool you used to compute the 110 MiB delta shows only a single number, are you sure the way the number is calculated has not changed between your old and your new system? I assume you used the same tool in the old and the new system, otherwise it's even more likely that you ended up comparing apples and oranges. 110 MB difference looks huge by any measure. According to to my results the mapped address space of the new version is "only" around 46 MiB. I don't think any reasonable measure can be bigger than the mapped space. (The old one is around 45 MiB, the difference 712 KiB) Regards, Uwe _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list