* Andrea Rossato (mailing_list@istitutocolli.org) wrote: [...]
12954 robert 15 0 37932 2512 1508 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.09 ./dist/build/xmobar/xmobar
well, this does not tell me much, actually... xmobar is linked to everything needed to run a haskell binary in your system, and all this stuff must be loaded.
True for the virtual memory size. Still, the question remains why does xmonad which is obviuosly also linked to "everything needed to run a haskell binary" _not_ use equally much memory? The answer might be: because xmobar uses some really huge libraries that are not being used by/shared with any other haskell prog i use. So if I go one step further i could conclude that I'm spending a lot of precious memory for only a single application.
have a look here: http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-lin...
Just for comparision purposes:
2982 robert 15 0 5640 2436 1528 S 0.0 0.7 0:01.95 /home/robert/bin/xmonad 2981 robert 15 0 4044 984 796 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.14 dzen2
This is just a misleading statement: dzen is using a lot of library that are already loaded into memory. This is not a useful comparison. You should know that.
Well, in my opinion the comparision _is_ useful because it shows 2 things: * A haskell programm with a fair bit higher complexity than xmobar needs way less memory or said in other words does not need that many huge supporting librarieѕ as xmobar. * A program (dzen) with a somewhat comparable feature set needs way less memory. Sure you could argue that ps shows bogus for multiple instances of a process etc. but used libraries need to be mapped and if they are huge and only used by a single program they simply waiste memory. Please do not take this as any kind of offense, i just wanted to point out the obvious :):
Ciao Andrea
Bye, Rob.