Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Al
free -m             total  used  free  shared  buffers  cached Mem:          3754  3588   165       0       57     258 3588 of 3754 is free, AFAIK not used at all. Plug off 3500 and sell it. If your system is slow maybe from managing all that unusued memory. ;-) Al

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Dale
Al wrote: free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 3588 of 3754 is free, AFAIK not used at all. Plug off 3500 and sell it. If your system is slow maybe from managing all that unusued memory. ;-) Al

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:37 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Al did opine thusly: free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 3588 of 3754 is free, AFAIK not used at all. Plug off 3500 and sell it. If

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, Florian Philipp did opine thusly: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 18.09.2010 22:19, schrieb Alex Schuster: [...] I used to restart kdm once per day in order to free memory. If I did not do this, KDE4 became nearly unsusabe. Yeah, logout - logon seems to resolve my problem temporarily, as well. Now this looks different here. I have X with 946M,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.09.2010 13:34, schrieb Alex Schuster: Alan McKinnon writes: 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. You gave the example of Thunderbird using 150M and Firefox 180M, but together they would

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:34 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, Florian Philipp did opine thusly: I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.09.2010 10:25, schrieb Alan McKinnon: [...] 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. The columns tell you the amount of memory that process can access. This is vitally important to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 18 September 2010, Florian Philipp wrote: Okay, I'm used to Firefox taking much memory. I'm okay with that since it's the most heavily used application currently running. But why does Akregator need that much memory? It doesn't even have any tabs open at the moment and is just

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Al
Actually, the 3588 is what is used.  The 165 is what is free.  Maybe the email program you are using is not lining the columns up properly. Maybe you are right. Headers out of alignment. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Yohan Pereira
ok first of .. i dont run my comp (laptop) for that long, although i am planning to start using hibernate. its usually up the whole day though. secondly im on kde4.5.1 (but i dont remeber having such bad memory problems with the version your running). Krunner's neopomuk plugin leaks memory,

[gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-18 Thread Florian Philipp
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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: 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. I was just about to write something about this. I suffered from bad