[maemo-developers] python2.5 - unnecessary multiple processes forked

[From: Martin Grimme]

Hi,

don't believe everything that 'top' tells you. :)
'top' on Linux also lists threads as standalone processes, thus giving
the illusion of wasting lots of memory. If the entries show exactly
the same amount of memory, then you can often assume that they share
the same amount of memory.


Cheers,
Martin


2007/12/31, Jayesh Salvi <jayesh at altfrequency.com>:
> forgot to cc the list.
>
> On 12/31/07, Jayesh Salvi <jayesh at altfrequency.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > BTW, are you sure the memory situation is really worse because of this?
> > >
> >
> > What I see is, in 'top' all these processes show same percentage of memory
> utilization under %MEM column (17% or so for each of them). I am not sure if
> this is virtual memory or physical memory.
> >
> > My application logic flow goes like this: It gets the filename from the
> user (hence FileChooserDialog) and after some processing it has to open a
> URL in the browser. It sends an RPC request to the browser. What I am
> observing is, the browser takes a long time to open that URL and by the time
> it has opened it, my app gets killed without any error message. Once I had
> seen a low memory message during this process, but now my parent app gets
> killed without any such message.
> >
> > I am still trying to establish if the above behavior is only because of
> memory over consumption. I will update as I make progress.
> >
> > --
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> > Jayesh
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> Jayesh
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