[Tfug] Suggestions on something less horrifically bloated than Amarok?

[Paul Lemmons]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re:[Tfug] Suggestions on something less horrifically bloated 
than Amarok?
From: bpoag at comcast.net
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>, Tucson Free Unix Group 
<tfug at tfug.org>
Cc: Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name>
Date: 09/16/2008 01:22 PM
> Ahoy Paul,
>
> Whats pmap say about it?  For every shared object Amarok brings in, my install shows about 2MB being eaten up..Of which there are many. 
>
> Like so:
>
> (..zillions of other shared libs..)
> 00002b48bf546000     92K r-x--  /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.19
> 00002b48bf55d000   2048K -----  /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.19
> 00002b48bf75d000      4K rw---  /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2.3.19
> 00002b48bf75e000    196K r-x--  /usr/lib/libidn.so.11.5.29
> 00002b48bf78f000   2048K -----  /usr/lib/libidn.so.11.5.29
> 00002b48bf98f000      4K rw---  /usr/lib/libidn.so.11.5.29
> 00002b48bf990000    176K r-x--  /usr/lib/libkdefx.so.4.2.0
> 00002b48bf9bc000   2048K -----  /usr/lib/libkdefx.so.4.2.0
> 00002b48bfbbc000      8K rw---  /usr/lib/libkdefx.so.4.2.0
> (....zillions more shared libs....)
>
>   
>
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> Subject:
> Re: [Tfug] Suggestions on something less horrifically bloated than 
> Amarok?
> From:
> Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name>
> Date:
> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:55:18 +0000
> To:
> Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>
> To:
> Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>
>
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: [Tfug] Suggestions on something less horrifically bloated 
> than    Amarok?
> From: bpoag at comcast.net
> To: tfug at tfug.org
> Date: 09/16/2008 10:15 AM
>> Short and sweet -- 
>>
>>
>> The degree of sheet bloat and unchecked corpulence of Amarok is beyond shameful. Its painful. Circus fat lady sitting next to you in coach with a 90 pound tumor on a transatlantic flight painful. Check out the pain from ps:
>>
>> root     32494  3.9  1.3 655676 53900 pts/1    Sl   16:36   0:05 amarokapp
>> root     32521  0.0  0.6 225720 25496 pts/1    S    16:36   0:00 amarokcollectionscanner --nocrashhandler -p -r /mnt
>>     
> Interesting.. While not twiggy my machine shows much smaller numbers...
>
> $ ps aux | grep -i amarok
> tspdlp   10082  3.3  1.3 156748 57912 ?        SLl  Sep05 518:54 
> amarokapp -session 10e4656d69000120822074100000068170047_1220636924_766828
> tspdlp   11024  0.0  0.0   3940  2436 ?        S    Sep05   0:00 ruby 
> /usr/share/apps/amarok/scripts/score_default/score_default.rb
> tspdlp   11025  0.0  0.1  14184  4668 ?        Sl   Sep05   0:00 ruby 
> /usr/share/apps/amarok/scripts/lyrics_lyrc/lyrics_lyrc.rb
>
> 156M aint tiny but it aint huge either
>
I think a lot of those libraries are just general support libs supplied 
by KDE and others. I took a peek at a small app: "kweatherservice" and 
it, likewise, has a zillion libraries. It is my guess that these 
libraries are loaded by KDE and made available to any app needing them. 
They are not counted in the size of the program because they are 
considered part of the support framework supplied by KDE, drivers, codec 
and general multimedia support. I would be curious about how xmms or a 
text based mp3 player fares. My guess is that xmms would have a similar 
set and that the text based one would not. I don't have either xmms or a 
text based mp3 player so someone else will have to take a look.

-- 
Sometimes I wonder.  Were our faith able to stand upright and look around, would it be looking down at the mustard seed or standing in awe of the height and breadth of it.

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