Bug#295414: marked as done (gdm: could use less memory while the
session is running)
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From: Antonio Fiol <fiol.bonnin@terra.es>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdm: could use less memory while the session is running
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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
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To: Antonio Fiol <fiol.bonnin@terra.es>, 295414-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#295414: gdm: could use less memory while the session is running
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:53:59PM +0100, Antonio Fiol wrote:
> 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.
What are you using to determine that 17MB of memory is in use? GDM uses
several shared libraries, that will show up in its "use", but these shared
libraries are only mapped into memory once, and most gnome binaries will use
them, so it doesn't really cost anything.
> I do not know if that is feasible, but if possible it would be nice.
As shared libraries are shared amongst the system, I don't see it being a win
unless you aren't using any other gnome applications.