Let's compare memory usage under original iLiad (GTK+2.6) and GTK+2.14.7:
Original iLiad (just after boot, with newLister)
Code:
root@ereader:~# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 64901120 43778048 21123072 0 1306624 21508096
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 63380 kB
MemFree: 20628 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 1276 kB
Cached: 21004 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 9168 kB
Inactive: 25228 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 63380 kB
LowFree: 20628 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
iLiad with GTK+2.14.7 (just after boot, with newLister)
Code:
root@ereader:~# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 64901120 46030848 18870272 0 1187840 21667840
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 63380 kB
MemFree: 18428 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 1160 kB
Cached: 21160 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 9228 kB
Inactive: 27444 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 63380 kB
LowFree: 18428 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB