The memory appears used, but most likely it is going into cache. If
you dont have a slowdown and swap isnt being used, I wouldnt be too
concerned.

On 1/31/06, Arnaud Fortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think FF 1.5 take 1GB of RAM also if it is closed. It's much a
> problem of freeing memory. Anyway thanx for the answer.
> The RAM problem isn't problebamtic as the network problem !
> - I've lot of mates around that can't use the FTP install on 0.7.1 but
> that didn't seems to scare anybody ...
> - I've no solution fr my testing install of arch ... that can't access
> network anymore ! Hopefully I don't work on it !  And Hopfully I have a
> "current" arch install next to testing so I can chroot from current to
> testing in order to upgrade it ...
>
> The two network problems look the same : no network ( eth0 is down ), if
> I modprobe the module needed by the network card and then configure it
> or restart the network , it doesn't work either !
>
> I hope I have an answer to this and/or it will be fixed soon.
>
> Arnaud
>
> Armando M. Baratti a écrit :
> > Hi Arnaud,
> >
> > I don't know about FTP install, but for the memory problems, if you're
> > using Firefox 1.5 it could be the infamous Firefox's memory usage
> > (leak) problem.
> > See this link:
> >
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828&highlight=memory+leak&sid=73f2c7d2741fdae47336ac481504dab5
> >
> <http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828&highlight=memory+leak&sid=73f2c7d2741fdae47336ac481504dab5>
> >
> > Armando
> >
> > On 1/29/06, *Arnaud Fortier * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >     I'm having problems on 2 computers with the FTP install of
> >     archlinux when using 0.7.1 in FTP mode => the network driver ( tg3
> >     / sk98lin ) doesn't "automaticaly loads" and when I do a modprobe
> >     tg3 / sk98lin the network doesn't work either ( also if I
> >     configure it by hand ) the only way I found is installing it with
> >     0.7.1-pre or with 0.7 ...
> >     The same appends to me on a test plateform ( hopefully ) after
> >     upgrading it to last testing pkgs ...
> >     In my rc.conf I have :
> >
> >     # Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
> >     MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
> >     # Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by
> >     hwdetect
> >     MOD_BLACKLIST=()
> >     #
> >     # Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
> >     #   - prefix a module with a ! to disable it
> >     #
> >     MODULES=(!usbserial !tg3 nvidia snd-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0m
> >     !snd-pcm-oss !snd-mixer-oss !snd-seq-oss)
> >     #...
> >     eth0="dhcp"
> >     INTERFACES=(lo eth0)
> >
> >     On both I'm on arch 2.6.15.1 <http://2.6.15.1>
> >
> >     Is there a fix / a misconfiguration ?!
> >
> >     *Now the memory problem*
> >     On all my arch systems ( 5 PCs one having 2 arch installed ) I
> >     have memory problem :
> >     Symptoms :
> >     - On KDE / Gnome / Fluxbox / e17 : free-m gives me about 90 to 120
> >     MB of RAM used right after booting
> >     but then after about one hour of use ( Firefox +
> >     xchat/konversation + Thunderbird ) The amount  of RAM reach 386Mo !
> >     I've waited 2 days to see and using only this programms I got
> >     1.2GB of RAM used !! ( hopefully on the test systme I have 2 GB ... )
> >     - The application works great I see no slow down problems
> >     - Memory seems to never "unload"
> >
> >
> >     It begins right after KDE 3.5.0 hit testing ...
> >     Here is a screenshot of my KDE desktop before this memory problem
> >     ... http://arnaud.fortier.free.fr/captures/capture2.png
> >     <http://arnaud.fortier.free.fr/captures/capture2.png>
> >     As you see I got 10 desktop in 2880x1200 with lots of superkaramba
> >     stuff + gimp + konversation + knotes ... check the other desktops
> >     ( capture1 to 10 ) and "only" 386MB of RAM used ! (the
> >     superkaramba script is here
> >     http://arnaud.fortier.free.fr/superkaramba/ )
> >     And 0kB of Swap.
> >
> >     Another information ...on kubuntu 5.10|6.04 / Mandriva 2005 this
> >     doesn't happens ( memory auto frees itself and 0 swap too )
> >     I've tried to dig into kubuntu / Mandriva to find an answer
> >     unsuccesfully ...
> >
> >     Does anyone has a solution / the same problem ?
> >
> >     Thanks a lot
> >
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