Re: [LUG] Out of memory )-:

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Tom wrote:

> On 06/09/13 11:27, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > Well, not quite, but what's it doing!!!
> >
> > top - 11:19:05 up 6 days, 14:36,  2 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.26, 0.22
> > Tasks: 175 total,   2 running, 171 sleeping,   2 stopped,   0 zombie
> > %Cpu(s):  2.3 us,  2.7 sy,  0.1 ni, 95.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi, 0.0 si,  0.0 
> > st
> > KiB Mem:   3831912 total,  3509196 used,   322716 free,   271272 buffers
> > KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 used,        0 free,   890016 cached
> >
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND 13071 
> > gordon    20   0 1898m 1.3g  14m S   6.7 35.5 414:59.27 gnome-shell
> >  5369 gordon    20   0 1018m 393m  23m S   6.3 10.5 209:48.38 firefox
> > 30282 gordon    20   0  570m 356m  17m S   0.0  9.5   2:20.91 Fritzing
> > 25137 gordon    20   0  247m  30m 6240 S   0.0  0.8   2:11.95 soffice.bin
> >  3489 root      20   0 97756  27m  14m S   1.0  0.7 104:51.99 Xorg
> >  4011 gordon    20   0  298m  20m 5328 R   1.0  0.6  18:42.48 xchat
> >
> > So much bloat - all for some nice eye-candy )-: 1.8GB of RAM used for what?
> >
> > Gordon
> Is it not this wonderful caching thing - pages are cached and loaded into ram 
> on startup if theres room.
> Mind you it is hard to get it small.

There is caching going on -yes, that's generally good, but for one 
program to reach 1.8GB of in-core memory is just ridiculous.

Gordon

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