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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 09/19/2010 12:15 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 09/19/2010 11:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, |
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>>>> Florian |
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>>>> Philipp did opine thusly: |
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>>>>> Hi list! |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for |
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>>>>> breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage |
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>>>>> grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> The following statistics have been taken after 8 days of uptime |
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>>>>> during |
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>>>>> which the system was on standby most of the time during work days |
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>>>>> and at |
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>>>>> night. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> free -m |
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>>>>> total used free shared buffers cached |
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>>>>> Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 |
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>>>>> -/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482 |
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>>>>> Swap: 6142 978 5163 |
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>>>>> [...] |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do |
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>>>> not mean |
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>>>> what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic. |
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>>> |
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>>> However, the values reported by "free -m" are somewhat useful and |
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>>> indicate that something is very wrong with memory consumption on his |
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>>> system. |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> This is my free -m: |
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>> |
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>> root@smoker / # free -m |
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>> total used free shared buffers cached |
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>> Mem: 2024 1934 89 0 380 657 |
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>> -/+ buffers/cache: 896 1127 |
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>> Swap: 478 0 478 |
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>> root@smoker / # |
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>> |
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>> I have less memory installed but if I understand this correctly, I have |
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>> more trouble than he does. |
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> |
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> Why? It reports 896MB usage vs 3271MB in Florian's system. Looks |
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> pretty normal to me. |
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> |
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I THINK I read he was up for about 8 days. I had just booted up a |
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little bit ago. Looking at the Mem line, I am using almost all of my |
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memory already. I was also keeping in mind that the OP has about double |
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the memory that I have. I'm just not sure what exactly is wrong with |
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his either. It was more of a question than anything. |
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He is using a lot of swap but that can be adjusted by setting the |
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swappiness file with a lower value IF he wants to do that. I have mine |
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set to 20 or so. I prefer to keep as much in memory as possible but at |
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the same time, I don't want to crash if say GIMP gets a little memory |
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hungry when I open 300 images all at once. I did that once. It took a |
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while. lol |
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I was always told that Linux uses memory a lot better than most other |
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OS's especially M$. Cache as much as possible and run faster which |
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means it will use all the memory at some point. Mine does that way and |
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always has. Since the kernel handles all this, I'm not sure what the |
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OP can do to fix anything unless it is a kernel bug. Then a upgrade may |
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be the sure. I guess? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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