[Xmonad] xmobar-0.4 - the xmonad status bar - released!

[Andrea Rossato]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:10:10PM +0200, Robert Manea wrote:
> * Andrea Rossato (mailing_list at istitutocolli.org) wrote:
> > XMobar is a minimalistic text only status bar.
> > 
> > What's new:
> > - many performance improvements on the monitors side;
> [...]
> > Any suggestion, comments, critics are welcome.
> 
> I would suggest to consider improving overall memory usage:
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
> 12955 robert    15   0 37932  2512  1508 S  0.0  0.7  0:00.03 ./dist/build/xmobar/xmobar
> 12956 robert    15   0 37932  2512  1508 S  0.0  0.7  0:00.01 ./dist/build/xmobar/xmobar
> 12958 robert    18   0 37932  2512  1508 S  0.0  0.7  0:00.02 ./dist/build/xmobar/xmobar
> 12961 robert    15   0 37932  2512  1508 S  0.0  0.7  0:00.00 ./dist/build/xmobar/xmobar
> 12954 robert    15   0 37932  2512  1508 S  0.0  0.7  0:00.09 ./dist/build/xmobar/xmobar

well, this does not tell me much, actually... xmobar is linked to
everything needed to run a haskell binary in your system, and all this
stuff must be loaded.
have a look here:
http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html

> Just for comparision purposes:
> 
>   2982 robert    15   0  5640  2436  1528 S  0.0  0.7  0:01.95 /home/robert/bin/xmonad
>   2981 robert    15   0  4044   984   796 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.14 dzen2

This is just a misleading statement: dzen is using a lot of library
that are already loaded into memory. This is not a useful comparison.
You should know that.

But if I'm getting something wrong please let me know.

Anyway thanks for your kind attention.

Ciao
Andrea