Re: Memory usage - Evoultion and Mozilla
From: Brian (nospam_at_my-local.net)
Date: 04/13/04
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:34:44 +0100
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:16:21 +0000, Harry Fine wrote:
> Hello
>
> When I check the memory usage, with the graphical tools such as KDE
> system guard, or with the ps command, I seem to have multiple instances of
> java, Mozilla and Evolution running. There are 4 Mozillas processes at
> about 50000 bytes each, and 4 Evolutions with 51,000 each.
>
> I have 528 megs of ram in the machine. Using the free command, shows only
> 6788 free, and 508084 used. Why are these applications hogging so much
> memory? Same as other tools show.
>
> How can I be using so much memory, and even using swap with only a browser
> and email client running?
>
Because that's how much memory they require.
I'm "only" running mozilla & pan; here's a ps ax dump:
$ ps ax|grep -i mozilla
2097 ? R 3:11 /opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla-bin
2108 ? S 0:00 /opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla-bin
2109 ? S 0:01 /opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla-bin
2112 ? S 0:04 /opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla-bin
$ ps ax|grep -i java
5913 pts/2 S 0:00 grep -i java
$ ps ax|grep -i pan
5856 ? S 0:04 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
5857 ? S 0:00 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
5858 ? S 0:00 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
5859 ? S 0:00 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
5860 ? S 0:00 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
5861 ? S 0:00 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
5862 ? S 0:00 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
5863 ? S 0:00 /opt/gnome2/bin/pan
$
For the whole system, there are 111 processes running.
lsof says there are 4716 files open.
Worry about RAM usage only when the system complains! ;)
B.
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