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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, Florian |
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> Philipp did opine thusly: |
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>> Hi list! |
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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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>> 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 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 not mean |
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> what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic. |
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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 system. |
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