Tkinter uses a lot of memory?!

[Paul Clinch]

servantofthesecretfire at fea.st (ServantOfTheSecretFire) wrote in message news:<f2adc03e.0311162026.3c282ccf at posting.google.com>...
> Hi there,
> 
> I wrote my first Python program this weekend, Conway's Game of Life,
> and I used Tkinter for the graphics. I thought I had done something
> wrong when I saw the memory consumption, so I wrote the simplest Tk
> program I could, and yep, it takes about 40MB of memory! I'm using Red
> Hat Linux 9.0 and recent versions of the software. Please look at the
> output below, and tell me if I am confused...

Wow!

> ~/python: cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
> 
Suse 8.2

> ~/python: rpmquery python
> python-2.2.2-26
> 
rpm -qf $(which python)
python-2.2.2-82

> ~/python: rpmquery tk
> tk-8.3.5-88
> 
rpm -q tk
tk-8.4.2-27

> ~/python: rpmquery tkinter
> tkinter-2.2.2-26
> 
rpm -q python-tk
python-tk-2.2.2-92

> ~/python: cat hello.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import Tkinter as Tk
> root = Tk.Tk()
> Tk.Button(text='Quit', command=root.quit).pack()
> root.mainloop()
> 
> ~/python: python hello.py &
> [1] 25633
> 
> ~/python: ps u
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> sjm      23897  0.0  0.2  4980 1088 pts/0    S    12:18   0:00 -csh
> sjm      25633  4.8  7.2 41576 37352 pts/0   S    22:35   0:00 python
> hello.py

pac       2947  1.6  2.1 11216 5556 pts/1    S    21:24   0:00 python

> sjm      25634  0.0  0.1  2616  660 pts/0    R    22:35   0:00 ps u

I suppose all can suggest is that you do a lsof | grep sjm and spent
some time working out what shared libraries have been pulled in.

Regards, Paul Clinch