xpra ram memory footprint

[monperrus]

Describe the bug
xpra is the process that consumes the most ram on my server

$ ps aux --sort -rss
ubuntu      4067  4.2 50.4 3332076 2017916 ?     SLl  May27  31:31 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/xpra start --xvfb=Xvfb -screen 0 2000x1000x24+32 -dpi 16 -nolisten tcp -noreset -auth $XAUTHORITY

System Information (please complete the following information):

• Server OS: Ubuntu 22
• Client OS: Ubuntu 22
• Xpra Server Version 4.4.5
• Xpra Client Version 4.4.5

Is that normal? Are there workarounds to reduce the memory footprint?

[totaam]

Is this initially or after some time?
This does look excessive. A normal server should use less than 0.5GB with mmap disabled.
RSS includes shared libraries.

Try turning off options, each subsystem you turn off will save some memory.
In particular, --mmap=no, all the codecs, etc.

For more information, see #1836, #1838, #1662 (comment)

[monperrus]

thanks @totaam