[plug] xmms query

[Beau Kuiper]

On Sunday 29 April 2001 19:56, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> I'm running XMMS under X and it looks like it is taking up a lot more RAM
> that it should
>
> [carlos at coeus pldc351]$ ps -aux
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> carlos   21826  1.7  4.7 16704 9248 ?        S    19:33   0:18 xmms
> carlos   21827  0.0  4.7 16704 9248 ?        S    19:33   0:00 xmms
> carlos   21828  0.0  4.7 16704 9248 ?        S    19:33   0:00 xmms
> carlos   21829  1.2  4.7 16704 9248 ?        S    19:33   0:13 xmms
> carlos   21866  0.8  4.7 16704 9248 ?        S    19:48   0:01 xmms
> carlos   21867  0.2  4.7 16704 9248 ?        S    19:48   0:00 xmms
>
> 4.7 is about 9.5 M
>
> Which appears to be ~=60M.
>
> Perhaps they all sharing the same code and this isn't the actual memory
> usage.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?

They are all threads of XMMS, and actually share ALL of their memory with 
each other. 

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au