Auto-launching of applications

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:03:18AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > Minor nit here; in the past update-notifier has always been present and
> > running in the background, displaying an icon as needed.  update-notifier
> > takes up about 20MB of memory on my amd64 system to fulfill this function.
> > The new behavior launches update-manager, which is a much more involved
> > program that takes up over 100MB when it's launched.  I know this is small
> > potatoes compared to, say, firefox, but I think we should be aware of these
> > costs since in aggregate they can certainly be an issue.
> [..]

> I agree that update-manager is substantially heavier in resource usage
> (mem/cpu) than update-notifier. The later was written with efficiency
> and low memory use in mind. But the memory use you cite does include
> all shared libs and all mmaped stuff.

No, it doesn't.  *That* number is 260MB larger; the 100MB figure is the
'RES' figure from top, which excludes the shared libraries.

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