minefield4

[curaga]

VSZ also lists all libs, which while still useful doesn't take into account the sharing possible. If that's the only gtk2 app you run, then they are not shared, but otherwise they shouldn't count against the app.

What I use is "pmap -d $pid | tail -n1" (the private column). Others have also recommended the improved top apps.


For example, top VSZ lists 21mb for bash for me, while pmap says it's only 850kb. pmap -d without tail lists where the other parts are used, how much which lib takes etc.

[tinypoodle]

Always wondered why top would show VSZ only and not RSS as I remember it from older version on other systems (busybox top as well).
Checking on this occasion here, I found that 'top -m' would spit out a lot more of detailed info related to memory usage.  

One thing I can not understand why with 'top -m' the X server PID seems to be absent...

[tinypoodle]

Just for memory footprint comparison, I tested the Firefox extensions by opening them in a terminal to www.google.com.  I was astonished to see how each release of Firefox is fattening up in terms of RAM use, as we see Opera in that same time has hardly increased at all.

Perhaps it might be of interest also to include seamonkey in the comparison.

[Jason W]

Thanks for the info, since I posted some numbers I will use a more accurate method so the numbers are not misleading.

[Jason W]

I have tried several times without success to contact the new maintainer of minefield4.  I will let the standard week or a little more pass since first attempting to communicate before I reinstate the previous build.  I know that life happens and I want to give the new maintainer ample opportunity to respond to attempts at communication before I take back over maintenance.    

[Jason W]

I have been in contact with Matt, and he is out of town right now.  He will fix the html5 issue when he returns.

[vinnie]

thanks jason

[Jason W]

Since 4.0.1 is released and there is an issue with the current one, I will provide an updated build until the maintainer is available to take over.

[Jason W]

I am uploading minefield4.tcz version 4.0.1, but changing to 24 depth color seemed to fix the html5 vidoe issue with the current 4.0 extension.

EDIT:  24 bit with the current minefield4.tcz still seems to pose html5 video problems that the update to 4.0.1 does not exhibit.