Okay, spent some time and have recorded these values. hth /d
1. Manually recorded from the Memory window in Inkscape:
Startup : 19:18 28 March In Use column, first 2 rows 34,005,xxx 3,248,128
19:23 81,543,xxx 15,675,xxx
19:41 103,288,xxx 32,546,816
19:54 Opened Text dialog - no fonts appear. (attached screeny) 116,685,xxx 39,489,536
20:00 147,288,xxx 45,608,960
20:05 - slow-down begins in panning 182,511,464 55,853,056
20:13 - drawing things is slow. Sluggish. 168,177,xxx 48,803,840
20:19 - fonts come back to the font dialog 209,829,xxx 57,987,072
20:24 slowness 276,764,xxx 55,500,800
20:38 - doing some exporting 225,065,xxx 54,050,816
20:42 - No drastic failure. Must stop for the night. 231,870,xxx 57,327,616
2. Recorded by this script: pid=`pidof inkscape` while [[ 1 ]] do cat /proc/$pid/statm >> ~/inkscape.log sleep 60; done
Starting at the same time, so going up in 1 minute ( I think ) intervals:
18290 10796 4403 1280 0 6315 0 21316 13814 4500 1280 0 9240 0 30800 23016 4547 1280 0 18717 0 32481 24282 4611 1280 0 20309 0 32481 24285 4613 1280 0 20309 0 32629 24409 4642 1280 0 20325 0 35927 27052 4644 1280 0 23623 0 37003 29318 4653 1280 0 24699 0 37006 29344 4670 1280 0 24702 0 39762 32024 4663 1280 0 27458 0 39762 32020 4659 1280 0 27458 0 39799 32054 4688 1280 0 27495 0 40136 32441 4717 1280 0 27832 0 40453 32721 4718 1280 0 28149 0 42000 34181 4724 1280 0 29696 0 42369 34504 4724 1280 0 30065 0 42415 34670 4724 1280 0 30111 0 42347 34603 4724 1280 0 30043 0 42347 34614 4724 1280 0 30043 0 44088 36150 4724 1280 0 31784 0 45627 36229 4724 1280 0 33323 0 45643 36315 4724 1280 0 33339 0 45643 36332 4711 1280 0 33339 0 45691 37562 4710 1280 0 33387 0 45691 37560 4708 1280 0 33387 0 45691 37559 4707 1280 0 33387 0 45691 37559 4707 1280 0 33387 0 45691 37559 4707 1280 0 33387 0 45691 37559 4707 1280 0 33387 0 45691 37559 4707 1280 0 33387 0 47771 38356 4707 1280 0 35467 0 47803 39452 4707 1280 0 35499 0 47803 39293 4681 1280 0 35499 0 47803 39262 4677 1280 0 35499 0 47803 39442 4677 1280 0 35499 0 47803 39114 4348 1280 0 35499 0 47816 39051 4354 1280 0 35499 0 47816 38971 4274 1280 0 35499 0 47816 38979 4282 1280 0 35499 0 47816 38948 4251 1280 0 35499 0 49896 40876 4210 1280 0 37579 0 49896 40894 4210 1280 0 37579 0 49912 40159 4161 1280 0 37595 0 49979 38591 4161 1280 0 37662 0 49979 38397 4160 1280 0 37662 0 49979 37091 4160 1280 0 37662 0 49979 37019 4159 1280 0 37662 0 49979 36998 4159 1280 0 37662 0 57081 43398 4159 1280 0 44764 0 57081 43398 4159 1280 0 44764 0 57081 43398 4159 1280 0 44764 0 57081 43398 4159 1280 0 44764 0 57081 43312 4159 1280 0 44764 0 57051 44297 4161 1280 0 44734 0 57051 43948 4152 1280 0 44734 0 57051 44096 4208 1280 0 44734 0 57051 44127 4209 1280 0 44734 0 57051 44190 4209 1280 0 44734 0 57051 44189 4207 1280 0 44734 0 57051 44206 4208 1280 0 44734 0 57051 44195 4204 1280 0 44734 0 62408 49345 4193 1280 0 50091 0 64305 51198 4188 1280 0 51988 0 66247 53033 4188 1280 0 53930 0 68323 55010 4186 1280 0 56006 0 67997 54637 4184 1280 0 55680 0 67997 54294 3999 1280 0 55680 0 80766 66191 3977 1280 0 68449 0 75848 61238 3968 1280 0 63531 0 75880 61301 3968 1280 0 63563 0 75880 61216 3966 1280 0 63563 0 75880 61260 3968 1280 0 63563 0 75880 61198 3958 1280 0 63563 0 77928 61350 4017 1280 0 65611 0 77928 61376 4015 1280 0 65611 0 77928 61442 4015 1280 0 65611 0 77928 61411 4001 1280 0 65611 0 77944 61620 3973 1280 0 65627 0 77961 62095 4047 1280 0 65644 0 77960 60908 4009 1280 0 65643 0 77777 61621 4016 1280 0 65460 0 77777 61626 4016 1280 0 65460 0 77777 61626 4016 1280 0 65460 0 77777 61626 4016 1280 0 65460 0 77777 61609 4016 1280 0 65460 0 77777 62085 4106 1280 0 65460 0