Bug 359091

Summary: Gwenview is taking >600MB of RAM when opening file.
Product: [Applications] gwenview Reporter: Edwin <edwin.jablonski.pl>
Component: generalAssignee: Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: jkt, myriam
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Edwin 2016-02-07 09:51:49 UTC 
Gwenview is taking >600MB of RAM when opening file. File size/extension does not matter.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open image file in Gwenview
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Actual Results:  
Gwenview is eating 1/4 of my RAM

Expected Results:  
I expect it to not eating 1/4 of my RAM
Comment 1 Jan Kundrát 2016-12-20 12:09:08 UTC 
Hi Edwin,
what number are you looking at? By default, programs such as `top` show the amount of mapped virtual memory which is irrelevant -- right now, a simple GTK version of Vim is shown as "taking" 434MB of RAM on my system while its actual exclusive memory usage ("RSS") is < 30MB.

See e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7880784/what-is-rss-and-vsz-in-linux-memory-management .