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Tkinter uses a lot of memory?!

ServantOfTheSecretFire servantofthesecretfire at fea.st
Sun Nov 16 23:26:41 EST 2003 
Hi there,

I wrote my first Python program this weekend, Conway's Game of Life,
and I used Tkinter for the graphics. I thought I had done something
wrong when I saw the memory consumption, so I wrote the simplest Tk
program I could, and yep, it takes about 40MB of memory! I'm using Red
Hat Linux 9.0 and recent versions of the software. Please look at the
output below, and tell me if I am confused...

~/python: cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)

~/python: rpmquery python
python-2.2.2-26

~/python: rpmquery tk
tk-8.3.5-88

~/python: rpmquery tkinter
tkinter-2.2.2-26

~/python: cat hello.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import Tkinter as Tk
root = Tk.Tk()
Tk.Button(text='Quit', command=root.quit).pack()
root.mainloop()

~/python: python hello.py &
[1] 25633

~/python: ps u
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
sjm      23897  0.0  0.2  4980 1088 pts/0    S    12:18   0:00 -csh
sjm      25633  4.8  7.2 41576 37352 pts/0   S    22:35   0:00 python
hello.py
sjm      25634  0.0  0.1  2616  660 pts/0    R    22:35   0:00 ps u
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