Re: RAM 95% used

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:00:45PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote:
even though i'm not running anything.

in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc
dependencies.

in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally
minimal
system i believe the later.

however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that
much.

what's wrong with it? why is it using up my ram?

atm, just ruunning xfce takes 200mb. nothing stupid is installed, the
whole point was for a fast system

I've already seen the same question today, about memory being eaten up,
and that too was someone using xfce. The answer was that xfce suffers
from memory leaks.

The thing to do is log out of xfce, restart it, and keep an eye on
memory useage. If it is a memory leak problem, you should initially see
hardly any memory being used, and this will slowly creep up with the
passing of time.

Nigel.



Oh. kinda contradictory for the 'light' DE. Still, they seem on the
ball. I'm sure it'll be sorted in no time

well, 'light' means their philosophy is to have a less resource
intensive DE. memory leaks are, of course, bugs where memory is not
properly freed after being used and are bugs as opposed to problems in
the philosophy.

I am curious about your sluggishness though, as I've had xfce running
for days with multiple apps open and problems. Currently I've got 2 or
3 terminals, iceweasel, openoffice, xfmedia and gnucash all up and
running for about 5 days and am only using 460MB of my 1 GB total
mem/swap. Are you running one of the *dm's? if so which one?

A

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