Re: [dev] [st] Larger HISTSIZE consumes huge memory

From: Techno Implant <burhansylhet_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:38:24 +0600

> What's the problem here? It's only virtual memory, so the Kernel should
> do exactly that already.

ps aux for st and urxvt

burhan 7634 0.1 0.3 181100 20748 ? S 19:24 0:00 urxvt
burhan 7650 0.1 0.3 181092 20296 ? S 19:24 0:00 urxvt
burhan 7664 0.1 0.3 181092 21292 ? S 19:24 0:00 urxvt
burhan 7707 0.3 0.3 181092 20508 ? S 19:25 0:00 urxvt


burhan 7522 0.3 2.1 191580 131720 ? S 19:23 0:00 st
burhan 7532 0.2 2.1 190128 130308 ? S 19:23 0:00 st
burhan 7544 0.2 1.1 129540 69632 ? S 19:23 0:00 st
burhan 7583 0.1 2.1 190128 130236 ? S 19:24 0:00 st

rss is ram memory from my understanding . 100MB or larger for a
terminal is much.

I don't care about daemon mode , it was just a question. My actual
question was how to get larger scrollback with considerable memory
consumption.
Received on Thu Jun 22 2017 - 15:38:24 CEST