I second that question.
I use the following machine as a workstation only. At the moment its running
KDE with a few terminals open, kmail and xmms. The system is using over 1Gb
(!) of ram, why is that?
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 1320878080 1304473600 16404480 0 118718464 905023488
Swap: 403030016 0 403030016
MemTotal: 1289920 kB
MemFree: 16020 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 115936 kB
Cached: 883812 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 529556 kB
Inact_dirty: 519528 kB
Inact_clean: 38788 kB
Inact_target: 217572 kB
HighTotal: 393136 kB
HighFree: 1024 kB
LowTotal: 896784 kB
LowFree: 14996 kB
SwapTotal: 393584 kB
SwapFree: 393584 kB
Committed_AS: 219168 kB
Eran.
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 15:55, Micha Feigin wrote:
> 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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