On 2005 June 20 Monday 18:29, Ricardo Galli wrote: > On Tuesday, 21 de June de 2005 00:21, Zack Cerza shaped the electrons to > > shout: > > Yep. From top, sorting by "%MEM": > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > > COMMAND > > 9379 zack 15 0 2202m 409m 8640 S 0.0 40.4 9:31.38 kded > > 9070 root 6 -10 100m 64m 2300 S 1.2 6.4 12:53.23 > > XFree86 > > [snip] > > > > I've got 1024MB of RAM, so it looks like kded is using over 400MB. The > > next greediest process is XFree86, using about 60MB. Not cool. :) > > top is not the right tool to measure memory consumption. OTH the xfree > memoryu consuption issue has been clarified several times. One is the top > misleading figures, the others is that it counts the graphic card memory.
Er, I know that - but it's still ridiculous, no? What I don't know (and you didn't say) is what the right tool is. Zack