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 1OxG0C-0005KV-Up for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:16:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C547FE0773; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A604CE0773 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwaa18 with SMTP id a18so2052539gwa.40 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:15:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=U/tFyOdkZLLM0BM7hF+lTZjqyOWBnsWe2GdyQeAXKIM=; b=sTHwV/YSFrlrKhtcNLjkRGeWlc5xwrKH2JK2t4KeGJyaBRJQIIF6RYIhlJNyPs4g/B rAveRm6LwZlAQTcv3fQMBSX8KMhVdYzpTKbBYTayW6QwlvplWtGyZb6nwIt1mT+s5EuT afHIo7t+J0lMF5zwTj5JUT1DPpGVcDSSIytL8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TX/UqdlIukXR56w0jdZ6MNmTvubB29oXhRb81GIsdk4y5FydDgO5E6lY0XeTuWLq4g ylu9HS36xUVM6GBTXxhyAOVTmTKocI4Hjyb3Iyc8xGrj237/EiknBRWi7rgydTbGrMwW ywvG+c7mxK5wHGVCWCKZxT8onvOHzkEq9ZsU4= Received: by 10.101.59.14 with SMTP id m14mr7749205ank.127.1284887709102; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-240-57-132.jan.bellsouth.net [74.240.57.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h5sm9997640anb.8.2010.09.19.02.15.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C95D49A.3090202@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:15:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100916 Gentoo/2.0.8 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE ridiculous memory usage References: <4C94D075.6040508@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <201009191025.07004.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b21f127a-3260-4901-b946-0fb7c7bb9c0c X-Archives-Hash: 6df5d01980a12a7f469abe48baa24c2b Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/19/2010 11:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, >> Florian >> Philipp did opine thusly: >> >>> Hi list! >>> >>> I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for >>> breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage >>> grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. >>> >>> The following statistics have been taken after 8 days of uptime during >>> which the system was on standby most of the time during work days >>> and at >>> night. >>> >>> free -m >>> total used free shared buffers cached >>> Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 >>> -/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482 >>> Swap: 6142 978 5163 >>> [...] >> >> Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do >> not mean >> what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic. > > However, the values reported by "free -m" are somewhat useful and > indicate that something is very wrong with memory consumption on his > system. > This is my free -m: root@smoker / # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2024 1934 89 0 380 657 -/+ buffers/cache: 896 1127 Swap: 478 0 478 root@smoker / # I have less memory installed but if I understand this correctly, I have more trouble than he does. This install is a few years old and my rig is several years old. It's been doing fine so far. I'm also using the same KDE. Currently running, KDE, Seamonkey and a nice emerge of a video package. The compile process is using the most memory at the moment. Dale :-) :-)