Bug#295414: gdm: could use less memory while the session is running

[Antonio Fiol]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.6-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

I have seen that while the session is running, gdm is still consuming
about 17Mb memory. But it is not doing anything but waiting for the
session to finish.

Couldn't anything be done to avoid such a waste for small systems?

Suggestion: Refactor the graphical part (using lots of libs) out from 
the waiting process.

I do not know if that is feasible, but if possible it would be nice.

Yours,


Antonio Fiol

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.59            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                  1.4.45          Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                     1.10.27         Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  eterm [x-terminal-emulat 0.9.2-8         Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  gksu                     1.2.3-2         graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session            2.8.1-5         The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.8.2-1         The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                 2.4.21-1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-5         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0               1.0.2-5         high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3                0.6.0-2         a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libesd0                  0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11              1.2.0-11        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.2-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-11        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11              1.0.16-13       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0            1.0-1           library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1                 1.11.1-1        Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.2-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-9            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.5-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules           0.76-22         Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime           0.76-22         Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                 0.76-22         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.8.1-2         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1              1.20-1          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2               0.2.10-4        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0                 7.6.dbs-6       Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-2        GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manag 1:2.8.8-1       A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  multi-gnome-terminal [x- 1.6.2-10        Enhanced the GNOME Terminal
ii  wmaker [x-window-manager 0.91.0-7        NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii  xbase-clients            4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-11 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulat 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm