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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition
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Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>
>> Alex Schuster wrote:
>>
>
>>> I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe
>>> here.
>>>
>> I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
>> time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs,
>> you got a lot running or something. o_O
>>
> I'm using 4.5G right now according to free -m (using the -/+ buffers/cache
> entry). 550M for a Windows VM, 355M for Kontact, 350M for my TV-Browser
> application, 200M for Firefox, incredible 165M for a Chromium instance, 155M
> plasma-desktop. Oh, there's an emerge -a command waiting for me to confirm
> it should run, 155M. virtuoso-t neds 150M, the same goes for Amarok, and
> kwin is at 140 now. The rest is mainly more Chromium and Konqueror
> processes, X, akonadi_nepomuk, apache2, kmymoney, the rest is less then 65M
> each.
>
> The system even starts swapping from time to time. 6G was not enough, things
> are much better now that I have 8G. With 4, it became unusable after 1-2
> days of being logged into KDE.
>
>
>>> Well, if you were using LVM, this would take less than a minute:
>>>
>>> lvresize -L +2G /dev/myVolumeGroup/myVarVolume
>>> resize2fs /dev/myVolumeGroup/myVarVolume
>>>
>> Yea but I don't use LVM.
>>
> I know :)
>
> Wonko
>
>
>
Jeez, I thought I used the kitchen sink here at times. The better
question may be, what don't you have running? LOL
Dale
:-) :-)