Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

[Alex Schuster]

Dale writes:

> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Dale writes:
> >> Alex Schuster wrote:
> >>> I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run
> >>> KDE here.
> >>
> >> I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time.  Most of the
> >> time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open.  If your used
> >> 8Gbs, you got a lot running or something.  o_O
> >
> > I'm using 4.5G right now according to free -m (using the -/+
> > buffers/cache entry). 550M for a Windows VM, 355M for Kontact, 350M
> > for my TV-Browser application, 200M for Firefox, incredible 165M for
> > a Chromium instance, 155M plasma-desktop. Oh, there's an emerge -a
> > command waiting for me to confirm it should run, 155M. virtuoso-t
> > neds 150M, the same goes for Amarok, and kwin is at 140 now. The rest
> > is mainly more Chromium and Konqueror processes, X, akonadi_nepomuk,
> > apache2, kmymoney, the rest is less then 65M each.
> >
> > The system even starts swapping from time to time. 6G was not enough,
> > things are much better now that I have 8G. With 4, it became unusable
> > after 1-2 days of being logged into KDE.

> Jeez, I thought I used the kitchen sink here at times.  The better
> question may be, what don't you have running?  LOL

I made some screenshots [*] after I started with an empty .kde4 directory 
one week ago. They show what is started automatically when I log into KDE, 
well, except for the last desktop where I fired up a browser for online 
banking.

Desktop 1: Administration stuff. A Konsole with a root shell and a normal 
shell, and another spare one. Some system info and logging plasmoids.

Desktop 2: Multimedia. Amarok, a folder plasmoid with my images. A Dolphin 
with two tabs showing my music and video files, both tabs have two views. A 
Konsole window is grouped to the Dolphin window, I use it mainly for 
downloading videos with my download script, which is a wrapper for youtube-
dl but does a little more. BTW, I added it to the 'Open with...' menu in 
Konqueror, but nowadays I write 'mydl' in this shell and drag the URLs I 
want to download from the browser right into the shell.

Desktop 3: Mail/News/WWW. Kontact, I use the KMail, Akregator and KNode 
components mainly. And two grouped Chromium windows with some tabs.

Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh in 
a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start 
NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such.

Desktop 5: Programming. A big Dolphin grouped to a Konsole with a growing 
number of tabs. Some folder views for stuff I regularly need. Another 
Chromium, showing my Wiki, and more tabs when I need them. When I actually 
do something here, I also have some editor windows open.

Desktop 6: Other. Financial stuff, LibreOffice, and other things that don't 
fit into the other desktops.

All in all, I don't think this is really so much. With KDE uptime, more 
things are running, and I often see no need to close them, because  might 
need them later again. The weird thing is that this has been my attitude for 
long, and before KDE4, I had no problems with this, even with less then 4G 
of RAM. I was using swap then, but it did not matter much, a little delay 
while an application I did not use for a while gets swapped in was okay. But 
now, when swapping starts, it seems to happen constantly. As if important 
stuff were swapped out, that would be needed again immediately.
With the ati-drivers, this was even worse. When I moved to radeon, it was 
much better already.

	Wonko

[*] http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/