[Xastir] Memory question

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:03:30AM -0700, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <ve7did at dccnet.com> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> 
> Ok, think I found the problem.  It looks like kde is causing most of the 
> problem.  Obviously (now) the one I tried yesterday was not lightweight.

I thought KDE would have been a problem.  I was under the impression that
icewm was lightweight, but I use fvwm2 exclusively.

> With these large shapefiles KDE is consuming 45M of additional memory whereas 
> fvm is consuming a bit more than 1M with the same xastir parameters.  Even 
> though fvm consumes little additional memory it still does not release the 
> memory when the maps are deselected.
>
> Does yours do the same?
>
I haven't ever really looked carefully at the behavior of my window manager
when running xastir.  As far as I can tell from looking just now, loading
maps in xastir has no effect whatsoever on the resident size of fvwm2.
Xastir grows its resident size while loading a map, but drops back down when
done.  That was just a quick look, and I didn't watch the total size,
just the part kept resident, which is all that really counts.  I'd expect
total sizes to grow in spurts now and then, but not steadily and not without
bound.

> Tried gnome, and it was worse than kde.

Not surprised.  Gnome is a notorious memory pig.  With only 256MB I'd expect
it to be a dog.

> Gees.. hate to give up kde as I really like it.....  perhaps prettier and more 
> built in functions  is not always better...

That's my opinion, but I'm one of those people who think that the primary
purpose of using X is so you can have lots of shell windows open, and maybe
throw some graphics up once in a while.  

Sorry I can't be of more help.  I don't know where else to look.  Perhaps 
someone else on the list has seen the kind of bloat you are seeing.

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