Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

On 11/04/2017 00:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 10 Apr 2017 12:26:38 Dale wrote: > >> I have Gkrellm on my parking desktop. That's the desktop I'm usually on >> when I'm not doing anything. At a glance, I can see what the CPUs are >> doing, memory, disks, fans and a whole host of other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

On Monday 10 Apr 2017 12:26:38 Dale wrote: > I have Gkrellm on my parking desktop. That's the desktop I'm usually on > when I'm not doing anything. At a glance, I can see what the CPUs are > doing, memory, disks, fans and a whole host of other things. I can't see > me going without Gkrellm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/04/2017 00:58, Kai Krakow wrote: >>> Oh, and have a look at gkrellm and its plugins. It might have all you >>> want already and then some :) >> No, I hate that. See above. Too overwhelmin, too distracting, and >> either it steals screen real estate or isn't visible

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

On 10/04/2017 00:58, Kai Krakow wrote: >> Oh, and have a look at gkrellm and its plugins. It might have all you >> want already and then some :) > No, I hate that. See above. Too overwhelmin, too distracting, and > either it steals screen real estate or isn't visible anyways and thus > no need to

[gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Am Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:17:36 +0200 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > And here is what I get (I have summed up all 'visible' memory that > top would have shown) > And please, compare this to what I see as memory usage. Did you put the 'virtual' column into your calculation? If yes,

[gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Am Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:40:15 +0200 schrieb David Haller : > Hello, > > On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: > >Am Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:09:23 +0200 > >schrieb David Haller : > > > >> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: > [...] > >> > >> Tell us, why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Hello, On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >Am Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:09:23 +0200 >schrieb David Haller : > >> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >For me, it was a runaway upower process some months ago. I'm using >> >systemd, so I fixed it easily with the following

[gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Am Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:09:23 +0200 schrieb David Haller : > On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: > >For me, it was a runaway upower process some months ago. I'm using > >systemd, so I fixed it easily with the following drop-in: > > Tell us, why exactly would one need upower

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Hello, On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >For me, it was a runaway upower process some months ago. I'm using >systemd, so I fixed it easily with the following drop-in: Tell us, why exactly would one need upower again, anyway? -dnh -- Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure

[gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Am Sat, 8 Apr 2017 23:55:29 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > > Adding up all terms except 'tot' I get 5.6G where are the remaining > > 2G? And why is shmem 0.85G - I have even seen a value of 4G for > > shmem although all tempfs filesystems > > were nearly empty. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Am Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:33:20 +0200 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > since a few days my system eats up memory, uses SWAP space and gets > slow. > It might depend on xorg-server, but I don't know why. > > On a nearly idle system (except xorg-server and some XTerms) I