I am just curious why OpenOffice on FC3 consumes roughly 150MB of memory contra a 100MB of memory using Gentoo. I did a little experiment myself, where I checked the System Monitor and listsed the memory maps for that process, (Identically, you can do it by 'cat /proc/<pid_of_OO>/maps' and sort the output by size). I found that the library libsvx645li.so which is a 12MB library is loaded 6 times into memory on FC3 in contrast to Gentoo wich only loads this library once. On gentoo I am using the vanilla OO from www.openoffice.org, and I've tested this with both the standard FC3 rpm and the vanilla OO with no significant difference (~2-4MB). Both distributions is using gnome 2.6 and the Metacity window manager. I am just curious on what may cause this huge memory bloat (why is this library loaded 6 times and not 1). Any comments? - Eivind
