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 1OxFgG-000260-1u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:55:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD05EE0760; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AA4E0760 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FEC1B4181 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:55:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.906 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.906 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.307, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nrhGzhuUQyZU for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029A31B4179 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxFfs-0001nP-Th for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:55:04 +0200 Received: from athedsl-370755.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.0.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:55:04 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-370755.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE ridiculous memory usage Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:54:42 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4C94D075.6040508@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <201009191025.07004.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-370755.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100908 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <201009191025.07004.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9ff7d072-9851-406a-a029-2017c3b79e8d X-Archives-Hash: 7808d4e5673bf0166df90ff55123a064 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.