jojo said: --- Although the system uses around 200MB at the start up, every program I open adds up to the memory and it won't come down even if I close it. For instance, if at startup, my memory reads 200mb, I open chromium and use it for an hour, the meter goes up by 300mb, I close chromium, the meter still stays at 300mb and I open Rhythmbox, it goes further. So it will ultimately go up to around 700mb at which the system would become very slow and then I have to log off and login. It goes back to 200mb.
--- my reply: >From what you say here, it sounds as if chromium and rhythmbox are not freeing memory when they quit. If that is what is happening, then it's not a mint bug, it's bug(s) in chromium and rhythmbox. Linux caches memory, and the cached memory should be freed up for use by other applications|processes when needed. When a program quits, the memory used by the application will remain cached, until needed. What 'will remain cached' means is that you will not always see memory usage decrease when a program quits. Of course, if that's not what is happening, then your memory usage is caused by something(s) else. -- LM 10 RC uses over 200mb RAM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664006 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
