It seems to me that my computer is using way too much memory then it is
supposed to. According to /proc/meminfo it seems to be using over 200M
with only gnome-multi-terminal and lyx with no documents running. Is
this normal?
I used to run linux on a 64M computer so something seems strange to me
(or is it only lazily frees memory and gives me wrong data?)
I attached the output of /proc/meminfo and ps -el if someone can see
something that isn't supposed to be there or if there any other ideas on
how to free up some of that mem.
/proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 263122944 216059904 47063040 0 33796096 136880128
Swap: 402644992 21221376 381423616
MemTotal: 256956 kB
MemFree: 45960 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 33004 kB
Cached: 127500 kB
SwapCached: 6172 kB
Active: 111796 kB
Inactive: 83472 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 256956 kB
LowFree: 45960 kB
SwapTotal: 393208 kB
SwapFree: 372484 kB
ps -el:
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
4 S 0 1 0 0 68 0 - 300 select ? 00:00:04 init
1 S 0 2 1 0 69 0 - 0 contex ? 00:00:00
keventd
1 S 0 3 1 0 78 19 - 0 ksofti ? 00:00:00
ksoftirqd_CPU0
1 S 0 4 1 0 69 0 - 0 kswapd ? 00:00:01 kswapd
1 S 0 5 1 0 69 0 - 0 bdflus ? 00:00:00
bdflush
1 S 0 6 1 0 69 0 - 0 kupdat ? 00:00:00
kupdated
1 S 0 7 1 0 69 0 - 0 reiser ? 00:00:00
kreiserfsd
1 S 0 46 1 0 69 0 - 0 ? ? 00:00:00 khubd
5 S 1 128 1 0 69 0 - 330 poll ? 00:00:00
portmap
1 S 0 217 1 0 69 0 - 484 select ? 00:00:00
syslogd
5 S 0 220 1 0 69 0 - 494 syslog ? 00:00:00 klogd
1 S 0 230 1 0 69 0 - 308 poll ? 00:00:00 acpid
5 S 0 261 1 0 69 0 - 1181 select ? 00:00:00 cupsd
5 S 8 281 1 0 68 0 - 1153 select ? 00:00:00 exim3
5 S 0 287 1 0 69 0 - 472 select ? 00:00:00 inetd
1 S 0 308 1 0 69 0 - 303 nanosl ? 00:00:00 sleepd
5 S 0 314 1 0 69 0 - 671 select ? 00:00:00 sshd
1 S 0 376 1 0 69 0 - 618 wait4 ? 00:00:00 bash
0 S 0 379 376 0 69 0 - 299 pipe_w ? 00:00:00 tee
0 S 0 380 376 0 69 0 - 300 pipe_w ? 00:00:00 logger
0 S 0 381 1 0 69 0 - 1016 select ? 00:00:00 Xprt
5 S 0 422 1 0 69 0 - 505 select ? 00:00:00
rpc.statd
5 S 0 425 1 0 69 0 - 310 nanosl ? 00:00:00
noflushd
1 S 1 434 1 0 69 0 - 329 nanosl ? 00:00:00 atd
1 S 0 437 1 0 68 0 - 349 nanosl ? 00:00:00 cron
5 S 0 441 1 0 69 0 - 2481 poll ? 00:00:00 gdm
0 S 0 447 1 0 69 0 - 300 read_c tty1 00:00:00 getty
0 S 0 448 1 0 69 0 - 300 read_c tty2 00:00:00 getty
0 S 0 449 1 0 69 0 - 300 read_c tty3 00:00:00 getty
5 S 0 450 441 0 69 0 - 2569 wait4 ? 00:00:00 gdm
4 R 0 451 450 0 80 -10 - 6253 - ? 00:00:54
XFree86
4 S 1000 456 450 0 69 0 - 3430 poll ? 00:00:00
gnome-session
1 S 1000 501 456 0 69 0 - 592 select ? 00:00:00
ssh-agent
0 S 1000 504 1 0 69 0 - 2036 poll ? 00:00:01
gconfd-2
0 S 1000 506 1 0 69 0 - 1102 poll ? 00:00:00
bonobo-activati
0 S 1000 508 1 0 69 0 - 1639 select ? 00:00:00
gnome-smproxy
0 S 1000 510 1 0 69 0 - 3402 poll ? 00:00:00
gnome-settings-
0 S 1000 516 1 0 69 0 - 793 select ? 00:00:00
xscreensaver
0 S 1000 519 1 0 71 0 - 2167 select ? 00:00:07
sawfish
0 S 1000 521 1 0 69 0 - 5344 poll ? 00:00:01
nautilus
0 S 1000 523 1 0 75 0 - 4703 poll ? 00:00:05
gnome-panel
0 S 1000 525 1 0 71 0 - 2713 select ? 00:00:05
multi-gnome-ter
0 S 1000 529 1 0 69 0 - 3429 poll ? 00:00:00 acme
1 S 1000 535 521 0 69 0 - 5344 poll ? 00:00:00
nautilus
1 S 1000 536 535 0 69 0 - 5344 rt_sig ? 00:00:00
nautilus
1 S 1000 537 535 0 69 0 - 5344 rt_sig ? 00:00:00
nautilus
0 S 1000 538 525 0 68 0 - 333 unix_s ? 00:00:00
mgt-pty-helper
0 S 1000 541 525 0 69 0 - 600 wait4 ttyp0 00:00:00 bash
0 S 1000 547 1 0 69 0 - 3174 poll ? 00:00:00
mixer_applet2
4 S 0 548 541 0 75 0 - 605 wait4 ttyp0 00:00:00 bash
0 S 1000 560 525 0 69 0 - 601 wait4 ttyp1 00:00:00 bash
4 S 0 566 560 0 68 0 - 605 read_c ttyp1 00:00:00 bash
0 S 1000 16760 1 0 69 0 - 6151 poll ? 00:00:00
evolution-womba
0 S 1000 16762 1 0 69 0 - 4693 poll ? 00:00:00
evolution-alarm
0 S 1000 16776 1 0 69 0 - 4209 select ? 00:00:00 lyx
0 R 0 16875 548 0 76 0 - 806 - ttyp0 00:00:00 ps
thanx
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