Ben has some good news for anyone interested in reducing the memory usage of Linux programs. Smaps is great. But does it tell the whole truth? For PCs with (basically) limitless swap space, it’s possible that it doesn’t even come …
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Session-wide valgrind
Now that we know that even Evolution runs under Valgrind, we need a bigger challenge. So, how about the entire GNOME session? I've written a couple of tiny scripts that lower the threshold to doing this. They take care of …
Continue readingEvolution is da logic bomb
You know the story. Random crashes preventing you from reading your mail all morning. This time, though, there’s a twist (and a moral). The twist is that instead of complaining on IRC – ok, I mean in addition to complaining …
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I just imported Flow to GNOME CVS (module “flow”). It has a fairly detailed HACKING file for those interested. The low-level I/O is done (for Unix), modulo a little polish. Mid-level stream fundamentals are mostly done, but I need to …
Continue readingFIXME: Article summary here
How many FIXMEs do the various projects in my jhbuild directory have? Curiosity got the better of me today: hpj [~/work/jhbuild/gnome-2.16] for PKG in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | cut -b 3- | sort); do N_FIXME=$(find …
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