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- ====== Memory Usage ======
  
- Several people wanted to see numbers about Thunar's memory usage in comparison to other popular file managers for the Unix/Linux desktop. So, here are some numbers for Thunar in comparison to Nautilus, ROX, Konqueror and Xffm.
  
  ===== Test setup =====
  
  My spare time is limited, and so I won't come up with a 100% exact test setup here (in fact, there's a good chance that such a setup does not exist at all, but I'm not going into the details of measurement engineering here). What we are primary interested in is the amount of **unshared memory** required by each file manager while displaying a certain folder. That is, memory allocated solely to the file manager, which cannot be shared with other processes. To make life easier, we will ignore things like per-process kernel structures, etc., and concentrate on the stack and data (heap, bss, ...) sizes of the process. The measurement will be performed on a FreeBSD 5.4/i386 system, which offers the advantage that, due to the nature of the memory allocator in libc, the kernel's knowledge of allocated data memory pages is pretty close to the real data memory usage.



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