On Fri, 30.04.10 11:38, Brian J. Murrell (brian at interlinx.bc.ca) wrote: > 306MB of VM seems a bit excessive for a sound daemon, yes? > Seems it's even been as high as 450MB! > > This is 0.9.22, 0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478- > 0ubuntu14~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1 to be exact. > > Thots? This has been discussed before, try the archives. (Basically, the value you are looking at is with little meaning, since PA allocates a lot of address space in advance, only asking it to be backed up by real memory on demand.) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4