On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 04:41:24PM +0200, Yosef Meller wrote:
> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> >guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >>you'll have to forgive oleg for not understanding why you're
> >>bothered - he probably did not mess with gentoo and with its ebuild
> >>system.
> >
> >
> >No, I haven't. But I still don't understand what the big deal is.
> >
> >Here is the memory usage on my fully updated ("install everything" and
> >more) 64-bit FC4 on which I am typing this email:
> >
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> >Mem: 1020000 464112 555888 0 35580 276324
> >-/+ buffers/cache: 152208 867792
> >Swap: 2097144 0 2097144
> >
> >Used memory minus buffers and cache - 150MB. This is with the normal
> >(for workstation) services running + sendmail + KDE3.5.
> >
> >And here is another computer I have at home - totally obsolete RH7.3
> >on a PIII:
> >
> >Mem: 126308 119696 6612 0 79992 27252
> >-/+ buffers/cache: 12452 113856
> >Swap: 1020088 27752 992336
> >
> >(it is not doing much at the moment, I grant you, but it looks very
> >happy with 128MB of RAM).
> >
> >So, I really don't think that Gentoo has a monopoly on
> >efficiency. Yosef does not badly at all until he starts Matlab, or so
> >it seems to me.
>
> You're right, but...
>
> I just checked the box at my parents' house that's still running Gentoo.
> It has a pretty close configuration, and it runs the same processes +-
> (no hald, but with Samba and [EMAIL PROTECTED]). free reports only 91 MB used
> (not counting buffered/cached). that's 60 MB less! I don't need them to
> run my lungs, but it's still a big difference! And X is installed with
> most use-flags on.
So why not use top, ps et. al. to see who actually consumes this memory?
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