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A few responses

A few responses

Posted Feb 11, 2004 21:03 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: A few responses by wes0472
Parent article: A grumpy user's browser review

I have SEVEN konqueror processes running right now, and the total memory obtained from ps -o'pid,rss,args' is 186MB. That's an average of 26MB/instance.

That really doesn't tell us much. How much memory does it take to run a single instance?


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A few responses

Posted Feb 11, 2004 21:08 UTC (Wed) by wes0472 (guest, #7541) [Link]


$ ps -eo'pid,rss,args' | grep konqueror

24917 26756 kdeinit: konqueror --preload
7947 20236 kdeinit: konqueror --preload
9453 22636 kdeinit: konqueror --preload
9468 27124 kdeinit: konqueror --preload
14103 32228 kdeinit: konqueror --preload
14242 28172 konqueror http://www.google.com
14476 36300 kdeinit: konqueror --preload

A few responses

Posted Feb 11, 2004 21:22 UTC (Wed) by wes0472 (guest, #7541) [Link]

Actually, I suppose you want to know konqueror + all the KDE support
processes. Hmm. Another good point. Plus I should have counted the IO
slaves in with my original number.

sysadm 22680 konqueror
sysadm 4600 kdeinit: Running...
sysadm 8312 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
sysadm 8624 kdeinit: klauncher
sysadm 12848 kdeinit: kded
sysadm 7960 kdeinit: kio_file
sysadm 7940 kdeinit: kio_file
sysadm 7944 kdeinit: kio_file
sysadm 7948 kdeinit: kio_file
sysadm 7952 kdeinit: kio_file
sysadm 8712 kdeinit: kio_http
sysadm 8708 kdeinit: kio_http

Total: 114288. A bit higher, unfortunately.

FYI, the 'kio_file' and 'kio_http' are slave processes shared among all
konqueror instances, even on my account with 7 instances, I still have
the same number. I believe the number of io slaves is configurable,
somewhere.

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