It is eally, no matter the installation mode. Thanks for suggest htop. Using htop and iceweasel with 1 tab, I'm using 1.3 GB RAM (and 5 MB swap used), I don't install any programs or startup any program after install debian 8.
2015-05-08 15:31 GMT-04:00 Bob Proulx <[email protected]>: > Eric S Fraga wrote: > > real bas wrote: > > > It's early to talk about but the memory usage it's too much (3.5 GB > RAM) > > > with Debian Jessie. I using ISO (cd-1) of debian.org and have this > problem. > > It does not matter that you installed from CD#1 or by another method > such as DVD or network installation. All are equivalent. What > matters is what you have installed and then what you have started > running. > > > What does this include? > > > > I find that, with an 8GB system, most will be used but mostly as a cache > > to avoid hitting the disk. The output of "free" will give you that > > breakdown. "htop" is also good for visualising the difference between > > actual use and the cache. > > +1 for htop. Install htop and look at its bar graph visualization. > > # apt-get install htop > > As my machine is sitting right now with two web browsers open plus > emacs plus dozens of terminals I am consuming 1578M of ram in > userspace processes. The rest of my 4G total ram is used for buffer > cache. I have used 1261M in swap space for pages that I have not > accessed in days and it is better not to have in memory. > > I find the biggest consumer of ram pages on my system to be the web > browsers Chromium and Firefox (Iceweasel). The web has gotten to be a > ram hog and when my machine is in need of memory I exit the web > browsers first. > > Bob >
