Re: [Pan-users] Pan has 8 Processes, using 1436MB! That's eating my RAM!

[Dr. Adrian Wrigley]

Vadim Berezniker wrote:
> Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
...
> >   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> > 21433 amtw      15   0 1436M 218M 24664 S     0.1 10.8  14:13 pan
...
> Each fork uses the same memory ... so it's using 218M.

This issue is explained in the various FAQs on the subject.

It is "only" consuming in the region of 200MB because it has just
spent the past however many minutes shuffling 1000MB to the swap drive.
It still risks blocking up my computer when another program needs physical RAM,
and needs killing to stop the kernel from getting befuddled for 20 minutes,
while it works out it has to kill something.

I had to install quite a lot of RPMs to satisfy the dependencies - maybe I have
made some mistake here?
--
Adrian

Just for completeness, here are the shared library dependencies I have
on my system.  Are any of these known to leak profusely?

$ ldd `which pan`
        libgtkspell.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtkspell.so.0 (0x40030000)
        libpspell.so.4 => /usr/lib/libpspell.so.4 (0x4003f000)
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x40059000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x4025e000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x402c0000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 
(0x402d9000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x402ec000)
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x4030f000)
        libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x40330000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x4033d000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x40370000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x403a5000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x403a9000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x403ad000)
        libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x40414000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x404bc000)
        libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x404ca000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x404ce000)
        libgnet-1.1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnet-1.1.so.0 (0x404fe000)
        libgthread-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 (0x40515000)
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40518000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
        libltdl.so.3 => /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3 (0x4053c000)
        libpspell-modules.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpspell-modules.so.1 (0x40543000)
        libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 
(0x40545000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40589000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4065e000)
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x4066b000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x4067d000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x40682000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x406a7000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x406f9000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4070b000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
        libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x40720000)
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