[gentoo-user] Re: KDE ridiculous memory usage

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 09/19/2010 01:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 10:54 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Nikos
> Chantziaras did opine thusly:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> What specific numbers and what appears to be out of place?

This:

-/+ buffers/cache:  3271   482