Irssi 1.4.1 Released reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- apetresc · 2022-06-12 18:09 Does irssi have any compelling advantages over weechat? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pc42493 · 2022-06-12 19:23 For one thing, it's easier on the resources. And some people may prefer Perl over Python. For personal use, it probably comes down to preference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- frumious · 2022-06-12 22:30 My instance of weechat, running for a couple weeks now, is sitting at: VmRSS: 175440 kB Is 175MB not already negligible compared to what typical environments use? Firefox and X11 each chomp 1 GB RSS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pc42493 · 2022-06-12 23:14 Yeah, if it's negligible to you, just ignore it, but there is a very measurable difference, in some cases by an order of magnitude. UCOMM PID VSZ RSS LTIME ELAPSED LRATIO weechat 11545 211600 26636 32:09.23 5-12:41:48 40.380316 weechat 1421 221840 36220 4:48.29 1-02:14:06 30.493615 weechat 3243 213648 27732 13:18.38 7-21:28:47 11.698701 weechat 26428 215692 28636 5:31.40 4-14:42:01 8.305710 weechat 13876 214668 28060 7:37.12 8-19:28:41 6.002724 irssi 11195 85688 17572 16:34.88 23-20:44:05 4.820925 irssi 15977 85560 12432 1:55.04 3-05:01:42 4.147103 irssi 3922 89288 24008 13:01.39 23-17:58:54 3.806165 irssi 20266 98644 29492 22:32.76 62-07:32:11 2.511176 irssi 17186 73268 12736 0:44.12 2-18:14:16 1.845204 irssi 15261 74216 16600 7:33.08 29-10:14:55 1.781714 irssi 23334 71136 11960 2:24.44 10-12:47:35 1.582322 irssi 2090 69084 9672 6:59.58 31-21:51:04 1.519733 irssi 18775 71140 10160 9:48.46 45-11:16:54 1.496711 irssi 24206 70112 13160 10:49.92 50-16:47:35 1.481581 irssi 18680 92064 15104 13:18.39 62-22:28:40 1.467527 irssi 618 82252 11784 1:23.40 7-11:39:54 1.283252 irssi 2679 69084 12008 1:26.77 7-22:57:28 1.251004 irssi 26938 70276 8928 2:53.09 16-22:46:51 1.181362 irssi 21082 69080 9372 2:48.56 16-11:53:56 1.178752 irssi 13204 92088 13912 2:40.89 15-18:43:19 1.173538 irssi 27140 71140 8528 1:48.08 10-19:02:51 1.158089 irssi 28581 71140 10784 2:02.74 12-07:07:45 1.148273 irc 17132 27908 4972 0:07.46 4-06:15:25 0.190153 irc 948 28632 4708 0:03.41 4-06:18:09 0.081458 sic 25970 7672 1148 0:02.74 12-23:18:24 0.017846 (`LRATIO := LTIME / ELAPSED`) And I personally find 175MB absolutely ridiculous for a glorified text logger. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IBNash · 2022-07-03 10:25 Too little too late, most have moved to weechat