[Gllug] Linux workstation admin simpler than OS X

[John Edwards]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:43:44AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:58:25AM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 07:26:00PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>> <snip> 
>>> It's also written in python, so it consumes buckets of memory doing
>>> whatever it is that python does to consume huge amounts of memory for
>>> any trivial task.  It's using over 100MB of memory on that machine
>>> right now, to manage a fixed network that doesn't need to be managed.
>> 
>> Which version of python is that using?
>> 
>> Version 2.5 has some memory leak bugs fixed and performs a lot
>> better than 2.4 when it comes to memory usage over time.
> 
<snip justified criticism of garbage collection>
> 
> The consequence of this is that a simple wrapper around /sbin/ifconfig
> and dhclient takes 100MB of RAM, and the earth groans supplying
> electricity to a million machines running 'yum-updatesd'.

No, I don't think that fully explains why your version of Network
Manager uses 100MB compared to 4.5MB when I run it on Ubuntu 8.04.

Just for my curiousity, can please run 'python --version'?


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