Re: RAM 95% used

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:00:45PM EDT, 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.

Two different things.

Memory leaks are almost always easy to fix .. once you know how/where
it's leaking, that is ..

Bloat is a design issue ..

In a sense, it's even easier to "fix" .. make up you mind whether you
really need all paraphernalia .. if you don't .. dump the bloody thing
and look for you fun elsewhere.

Still, they seem on the ball.

I don't use XFCE but if it is something as clearcut as a memory leak ..
the first thing to do is to find out if there's a patch for it.

Go to their web site .. see what's the current version .. take a look
at the change log .. etc.

I'm sure it'll be sorted in no time

Hopefully, you only need to upgrade.

Good luck with it.

Thanks,
cga




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