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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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>>> |
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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 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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Why? It reports 896MB usage vs 3271MB in Florian's system. Looks |
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pretty normal to me. |
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