Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE ridiculous memory usage

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 09/19/2010 11:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010,
>> Florian
>> Philipp did opine thusly:
>>
>>> Hi list!
>>>
>>> I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for
>>> breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage
>>> grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior.
>>>
>>> The following statistics have been taken after 8 days of uptime during
>>> which the system was on standby most of the time during work days
>>> and at
>>> night.
>>>
>>> free -m
>>>                     total  used  free  shared  buffers  cached
>>> Mem:          3754  3588   165       0       57     258
>>> -/+ buffers/cache:  3271   482
>>> Swap:         6142   978  5163
>>> [...]
>>
>> Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do
>> not mean
>> what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic.
>
> However, the values reported by "free -m" are somewhat useful and
> indicate that something is very wrong with memory consumption on his
> system.
>

This is my free -m:

root@smoker / # free -m
                     total       used       free     shared    
buffers     cached
Mem:          2024       1934         89          0        380        657
-/+ buffers/cache:      896       1127
Swap:          478              0         478
root@smoker / #

I have less memory installed but if I understand this correctly, I have 
more trouble than he does.  This install is a few years old and my rig 
is several years old.  It's been doing fine so far.  I'm also using the 
same KDE.

Currently running, KDE, Seamonkey and a nice emerge of a video package.  
The compile process is using the most memory at the moment.

Dale

:-)  :-)