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On 01/03/2011 08:34 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I recently built me a new 64 bit system. My old 32 bit system has 2Gbs |
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> and my new system has 4Gbs. I was expecting it to use about the same |
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> amount of memory but noticed it uses a good bit more on the new system |
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> than the old one. With just the normal stuff open, I use about 1.5Gbs of |
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> ram. My old system would use a little over half that. I have the same |
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> settings on both. |
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> Is this difference because 64 bit programs use more memory, maybe they |
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> are larger than 32 bit programs? Just curious. I notice that Seamonkey |
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> uses more and KDE's plasma-desktop uses more. Those are generally the |
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> biggest users. |
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> I'm not complaining about the usage, just curious as to why the difference. |
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There's usually a very small difference (I'd say about 10%). But |
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nothing like you're describing (which is almost 100% if what you're |
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saying is true.) |
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How do you tell how much memory is used? If you're using KDE, System |
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Monitor will give you a good value that's very close to reality. On my |
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system (with a full blown KDE desktop with some plasmoids active and |
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currently Firefox + Thunderbird + Amarok running) it says "0.57 GiB of |
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5.8 GiB", meaning it uses about 570MB of RAM and I have 6GB total.) |
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After a fresh reboot it's about 230MB. |
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I'm sure you're not using the same configuration (I don't mean USE flags |
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and such, but rather how you've configured your application and desktop.) |
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