[gvd-users] Huge memory requirements under NT

[Arnaud Charlet]

David,

> I am running gvd with an embedded version of gdb (--debugger
> m68k-bdm-elf-gdb) under Windows NT (SP3).  Task manager is reporting that
> gvd is taking 40 MB of memory!  My code is not very big - about 50-60k
> object code, with an elf file of around 700k with all the debug info.  As I
> mentioned in another post, the gvd explorer tree is full of library
> modules - is gvd trying to load symbolic information for all the library
> modules?

No, gvd is not trying anything special on the modues, so this is surprising.
We've never seen such a memory usage with gvd, in particular for such small
applications.

Arno