Sigil memory usage

[KevinH]

From my understanding Rss is total memory usage counting even shared libraries that are shared with other programs. Pss tries to proportionally allocate memory used by shared libraries across all the programs that use it. I can not see how Pss can be bigger than Rss as it is in the Days old process.

Either way, Sigil's memory usage has grown considerably.

The problem from a diagnosis perspective is that you are not building qtwebkit or Qt itself, correct?

In our official versions for Mac and Windows, we have included patches to qtwebkit that helps to free up memory used to store images. We also have included patches to prevent netscape style browser plugins (often broken) from being pulled into qtwebkit. We have posted both patches on Annulen's website for the newer qtwebkit but they are not part of official qt releases yet.

We also build Qt itself with a few patches to prevent heap corruption, and prevent drag and drop segfaults in tabs. All of these issues have been reported to Qt.

So I can not conclude if a memory leak exists in qtwebkit or not without as it may in your version but not in ours.

Which version of Qt are you using? What linux distribution are you using?

It would also help to know if you have Sigil open with an epub and let Sigil run for a long time with **no** user interaction, what the before and after memory footprint looks like.

In other words does the memory used grow even when not actively using the program or does it only grows with active use.

Thanks,

KevinH

[KevinH]

BTW, if you are building against system Qt and system webkit, please try building Sigil-0.9.9 or any earlier version and running it. If there is a problem in Qt, then it should not matter what version of Sigil you are running.