[SOLVED] Why does my pyqt4 script take over 1GB of memory?
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Created a pyqt4 utility for end users. The GUI contains a stacked widget with 5 'pages'. Four of the 'pages' contain a tab widget and the last 'page' load an html doc into a webveiw - uses webkit.
Most of the tab widgets contain a few text widgets and command buttons.
There is also a tree view, a menu, and status bar.
It's not a simple dialog but 1GB or memory seems excessive to me. I don't suppose there is a way to reduce the memory footprint.
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fair enough you can't post it but as an aside I use the gtk2 webkit in an editor as a help viewer and with it all running I only see 75M used, I am using it in 'c' as opposed to pyhton though.
Confirmed. If I strip out webkit the memory footprint drops from 1.3G to 200M.
I use webkit to display a usage document so it is not critical to the actual function of the utility. Is there a less memory intensive way to display html?
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Refering back to my preivious post In my app if the builtin webkit viewer is not built I just build the same html page but pass it to the default webbrowser with xdg-open, youshould be able to do this from python quite easily.
Refering back to my preivious post In my app if the builtin webkit viewer is not built I just build the same html page but pass it to the default webbrowser with xdg-open, youshould be able to do this from python quite easily.
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