[Users] memory usage

jan at lillahusetiskogen.se jan at lillahusetiskogen.se
Mon Apr 2 09:51:21 CEST 2012


On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 11:20:36 +0200
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Jan,
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 11:15:20 +0200 <jan at lillahusetiskogen.se> wrote:
> 
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >  2386 jan       20   0  506m 103m 6616 S    0  2.9   3:33.06
> > claws-mail
> > 
> > Can someone explain why Claws, a relatively simple application, use
> > so much memory?
> 
> 103MB of resident usage is not so much, really (here it's 150MB and
> 1163MB of virtual, meaning potentially addressed).
> 

No it's not as bad as the completely fucked up browsers we (have to) use
today. I would say that 103kB would be more reasonable...

> 
> How many accounts/folder do you have? Do you have some plugins
> loaded?  

Two accounts, 45 folders and no plugins.

BR,
/Janne



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