[geeks] Vis-a-Vis that discussion about Desktop Hoggishness...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 @ 17:21 -0500, Nadine said:

> http://www.maubi.net/mozilla/memory.html
> 
> An analysis of gtkEmbed leakiness.  Unfortunately, no obvious
> date/version listed.

Interesting.  I've done some long-term tracking and found leaks, but
didn't bother identifying what was leaking.

Something else I saw that this report doesn't mention is a large number
of shared memory areas that are unused but not removed.  It's not as
bad in later releases, where I found as many as 190 unused but still
allocated SysV shared memory segments.

Aside:

One real PITA is that it can be hard to account for all allocated memory
on a UNIX system, and Linux seems especially bad.  

I think memory stat tools should be able to fully account for allocated
memory, in both system and applications.



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