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Memory usage

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REPOSTED THE WHOLE POST FROM THE SHARED MEMORY THREAD:

Just noticed the last release has grown a lot in size -> ~5MB minimised. Previous versions used about ~2.5MB minimised

What happened????

sizeof(SHMEM) = 89096 = ~90K - of which about ~5K is usable data. You could only allocate as much data you use (only m_nSensors instead of SH_MEM_MAX_SENSORS)...

That explains ~100K, but where did the other ~2.4M come from??

EDIT:
wierd things are happening for me and systool mem usage. Now it is at 2.6MB minimized and it is ok.
If you look at http://img312.imageshack.us/img312/6828/sa29kx.png you'll see it at 3.9MB...
At the moment it is 3.2MB...

It seems to start at 2.7MB and rise. As I was writing the previous sentance mem usage jumped from 2.8 to 3.7MB and it stays at 3.7. Nooooo, I didnt even finish the last sentance and mem usage grew to 4.8MB, 4.9MB now. It was minimised and idle the whole time. It is on 4.9MB the last minute.

Could this be the graph data slowly filling up (but allocating the memory in chunks). Seems to much for that. And could you add an option in the next version to disable remembering the graph data when minimised?

I disabled all but my gpu sensors and now it is on 1.9MB -> 2.4MB -> I maximized and then minimized systool -> 2MB (what is going on??)
Added the memory plugin -> 2MB -> 2.5MB -> I maximized and then minimized systool -> 1.9MB -> 2MB -> stays at 2MB

OK, less sensors active -> less mem usage. But why is it slowly rising? And why does it sometimes rises to the different mem usage? And why when I max and the minimize systool I get lower mem usage?


EDIT:
Decided to do another round of tests.
Exited systool completely. Started it (gpu & memory plugins only)...
Systool is minimized...
Mem usage -> 2084KB -> after 60s 2108KB -> after 15s 2112KB -> after 20s 2160KB -> after 60s 2504KB -> left pc and came back after 10min -> 2584KB

Exited systool completely. Started it (all plugins possible)...
Systool is minimized...
Mem usage -> 2680KB -> after 5s 3220KB -> after 5s 3380KB -> after 40s 3392KB -> after 15s 3508KB -> after 5s 3552K -> left pc and came back after 5min 3604KB -> left pc and came back after 5min 3688KB -> left pc and came back after 10min 3724KB -> after 8min 3736KB -> I maximized and then minimized systool -> 2.832KB -> after 10s 2900KB -> after 20s 2912KB -> after 5min 2916KB

EDIT: in the last test all plugins possible = CPULoad + Diskspace + HDDTemp + LM78 + Memory + NVSensors = total 964KB on disk...
 
Mines been open about 2 hours and shows a memory usage of
maximum 5508k minimum 1340K

Typical when minimised = 2400K
Typical when maximised = 3000K

Using cpuload, hddtemp, LM78, memory and nvsensors plugins.
 
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