Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Darragh Bailey <felix@×××××××××××××××××.ie>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit.
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:05:42
Message-Id: 20110106185158.GA20445@compsoc.nuigalway.ie
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit. by Dale
1 On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 03:46:28PM -0600, Dale wrote:
2 > Well, I start with a saved session. I usually have seamonkey, Konsole,
3 > Konqueror, Kpatience and gkrellm running. I also run folding at well.
4 > I have checked when folding is not running and it still uses more. I
5 > use the same settings as on my old rig for folding. I may change to
6 > larger units when I get another stick or two of ram in here.
7 >
8 > Here is some results from top with them sorted by memory usage:
9 >
10 > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11 > 18913 dale 20 0 793m 303m 30m S 3 7.7 21:35.05 seamonkey-bin
12 > 18451 dale 20 0 871m 165m 40m S 1 4.2 40:47.95 plasma-desktop
13 > 28665 root 39 19 304m 112m 2616 S 94 2.8 1918:38 FahCore_a3.exe
14 > 25414 dale 20 0 607m 107m 9.8m S 0 2.7 1:33.53 knotify4
15 > 18453 dale 20 0 591m 99m 15m S 0 2.5 0:23.53 knotify4
16 > 18417 dale 20 0 618m 90m 41m S 2 2.3 23:59.85 kwin
17 > 26081 root 39 19 280m 80m 2616 S 99 2.0 2138:13 FahCore_a3.exe
18 > 28654 root 39 19 277m 80m 2616 S 99 2.0 1916:58 FahCore_a3.exe
19 > 27537 root 39 19 280m 80m 2616 S 96 2.0 2021:21 FahCore_a3.exe
20 > 5081 dale 20 0 474m 73m 31m S 0 1.9 0:31.91 konqueror
21 > 18225 root 20 0 142m 61m 15m S 4 1.6 92:24.29 X
22 > 18541 dale 20 0 470m 58m 27m S 0 1.5 0:35.72 kopete
23 > 29937 root 20 0 573m 53m 35m S 0 1.4 0:26.64 konqueror
24 > 26809 dale 20 0 202m 49m 30m S 0 1.2 0:29.16 mplayer
25 > 18566 dale 20 0 367m 48m 27m S 0 1.2 0:01.00 python2.6
26 > 18564 dale 20 0 418m 45m 24m S 0 1.1 0:00.49 python2
27 > 11802 root 20 0 721m 43m 11m S 0 1.1 1:19.41 knotify4
28 > 18539 dale 20 0 408m 38m 20m S 0 1.0 2:11.97 kpat
29 > 18491 dale 20 0 584m 37m 20m S 0 0.9 0:08.12 krunner
30 > 18544 dale 20 0 356m 34m 17m S 0 0.9 0:47.28 konsole
31 > 18371 dale 20 0 230m 31m 22m S 0 0.8 0:00.48 kdeinit4
32 > 18527 dale 20 0 417m 31m 16m S 0 0.8 0:00.48 kmix
33 > 18374 dale 20 0 409m 29m 16m S 0 0.7 0:05.96 kded4
34 >
35 > As you can tell, Seamonkey has been running a while. It still uses a
36 > good bit even when freshly started. Here is my flags:
37 >
38 > CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
39 > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
40 >
41 > I got them off a wiki for safe flags. I like fast but hate crashes. ;-)
42 >
43 > Dale
44 >
45 > :-) :-)
46
47 I could be wrong here, but aren't both seamonkey-bin & FahCore_a3.exe
48 32bit applications? That would mean that you're likely loading both
49 32bit and 64bit versions of a number of libraries. Would certainly count
50 towards a higher memory usage.
51
52
53 --
54 Darragh
55
56 "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."

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