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 was on standby most of the time during work days and at
night.
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258
-/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482
Swap: 6142 978 5163
A desktop machine that has 4GB RAM and still needs to swap?!
Excerpt from top:
VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1094m 484m 10m S 0 12.9 96:43.01 firefox
932m 471m 15m S 0 12.6 5:10.20 akregator
384m 303m 2856 S 0 8.1 59:43.43 virtuoso-t
709m 282m 2936 S 0 7.5 0:40.51 nepomukservices
839m 146m 15m S 0 3.9 8:37.76 thunderbird-bin
191m 131m 532 S 0 3.5 12:30.73 dbus-daemon
902m 105m 5288 S 0 2.8 0:30.16 krunner
263m 105m 1724 S 0 2.8 2:31.18 squid
255m 61m 6672 S 7 1.6 305:04.24 X
1106m 55m 7756 S 0 1.5 4:22.73 amarok
534m 54m 10m S 0 1.5 2:33.94 kopete
559m 52m 6536 S 0 1.4 56:52.37 nepomukservices
718m 38m 12m S 4 1.0 143:36.62 plasma-desktop
295m 33m 2048 S 0 0.9 1:59.32 mysqld
360m 17m 1856 S 0 0.5 0:07.56 tomboy
445m 16m 3392 S 0 0.4 38:54.36 nepomukservices
365m 14m 6356 S 1 0.4 27:38.49 konsole
438m 11m 4928 S 0 0.3 0:20.12 kded4
508m 11m 6364 S 0 0.3 0:45.79 kwin
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 running minimized in the background.
Virtuoso looks like an optional Soprano dependency which in turn is
needed for Nepomuk. Are the default use flags for dev-libs/soprano
suboptimal? What happens if I choose other flags for Soprano?
The rest of the list is a bit suspicious, as well. Especially DBus and
Kopete look like they live way beyond their means (or my means ;) ).
Do other users experience the same?
Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp
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