From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OxI2D-0001ac-7q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:26:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 036F3E078D; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:25:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B755AE078D for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so1714048ewy.40 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:25:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ODTMGEoENrh0HhTf+MJndYfNwhcb2nYG2x+kkrkqzHY=; b=u8hvY1zh4u5p2G+kY0ncUadV3FTw4Z4B9Y+1CmO7xq9cNinMKX2Rma04QCJQd75uxF WI2q5sBw6M/bJjaMFy0601w7BQfCnPKuSlW1kQpnDuIpkYkg2rBynX5yGh0IB1NxpEib aGoOhFi8be8vRMryDOcrw7n8GkRqyt4TnUY3U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=hkFXhuBlhmya5kt1cO/qekFAEw2djaGMYrVNRbIboHSaWNiD63AkkJCm1PzApzjluS QJzh5xPQ2fOcBYo/tRoGLvwjdqBpm/851uOyJskG02u4zl3ua6JjlxFGfsBA9AoDleUV jZyeDV+hN9jy/j1A4Vbh2SKdrw3SGLUo+WVb8= Received: by 10.213.35.145 with SMTP id p17mr1574723ebd.84.1284895543040; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-155.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a48sm9083933eei.7.2010.09.19.04.25.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:25:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:25:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C94D075.6040508@f_philipp.fastmail.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009191325.36857.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b41a8f7b-5ed7-4e53-aa61-1d4256694610 X-Archives-Hash: c484aef568eeecb5c693522d860c77c9 Apparently, though unproven, at 12:37 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Al did opine thusly: > > free -m > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 > > 3588 of 3754 is free, AFAIK not used at all. Plug off 3500 and sell it. > > If your system is slow maybe from managing all that unusued memory. ;-) > > Al I think someone needs to go study how linux memory management works, and what buffers and cache really are RULE NUMBER ONE OF LINUX MEMORY: SUPERFICIAL UTILITIES LIKE free WILL *ALWAYS* REPORT ALMOST ALL MEMORY IN USE. REASON: IT *IS* IN USE. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com