On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Lars Noodén <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10.03.2013 19:47, Ioannis Vranos wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Lars Noodén <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> For a few months, ending yesterday, I was using a 64bit machine with 1GB >>> RAM. For my daily usage, it was about half a GB too small. I have 3 >>> or 4 LXterminals, a browser with 10+ tabs, a chat client, Thunderbird >>> and occasionally LibreOffice Writer and a second browser. Most of the >>> time it squeaked by with a little swap usage, but occasional actions >>> (such as opening a bad marketing PDF) could cause it to thrash. If I >>> were just running one or two apps, I think 1GB could be more than just >>> fine. However, RAM usage seemed to always creep upwards during the >>> course of the day. Chromium-browser was one culprit. >>> >>> I switched back to a 4GB machine yesterday and am tracking RAM usage for >>> a while. So far it has been about 2.6 GB. >> >> >> Are you talking about Lubuntu, or LXLE? > > Lubuntu. On either system (1 GB or 4 GB) RAM usage creeps upward over > time. If I use the machine for a marathon session, especially on the 1 > GB system, swap starts to get used. Here is RAM usage in KiB from "top" > with a reboot after 19:30: > > 2013-03-10 19:00 2807492 > 2013-03-10 19:05 2811264 > 2013-03-10 19:10 3020268 > 2013-03-10 19:15 3022124 > 2013-03-10 19:20 3021356 > 2013-03-10 19:25 3024088 > 2013-03-10 19:30 2854100 > 2013-03-10 19:35 689544 > 2013-03-10 19:40 711864 > 2013-03-10 19:45 1384636 > 2013-03-10 19:50 1415660
By "marathon", do you mean the browser? Also you mentioend Chromium too. I have Chrome installed, I did not notice any memory leaks. Do you keep a browser window open for a long time? -- Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
