Thank you very much Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 ----- Original Message ----- From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Where is all my memory going? > Well unless I miss my guess, it looks like the natural Linux > memory allocation, usually Linux as well as any other unix > will allocate almost all its memory for things, whether its > used and shared, buffer, or cache. > > If you open a terminal and type xosview > this little app will show you what is going on > in memory a little more in detail as far as > colours go, it separates the different > colours out to illustrate what it is doing, > hope htis helps. > > Vic > > On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: > > > > I am running Mandrake 7.1 and KDE and being a newbie am just starting to look > > at top. I know that both x and KDE are memory hogs, but I need them for now as > > I learn my way around. Even so, I cannot believe that with nothing on but > > these two and a kconsole, I am using up 73 MB of ram! > > > > I still do not know enough to understand all the processes that are running. > > Could someone look at this top printout and suggest to me what seems to be > > taking up so much memory? > > > > Thanks. > > ....................................................... > > 9:30am up 8:55, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.34, 0.55 > > 65 processes: 63 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU states: 1.9% user, 1.9% system, 0.0% nice, 96.0% idle > > Mem: 81500K av, 73036K used, 8464K free, 0K shrd, 2016K buff > > Swap: 209624K av, 2116K used, 207508K free 28376K cached > > > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > > 683 root 19 0 10344 10M 1516 R 0 1.9 12.6 165:43 X > > 20753 jeff 10 0 888 888 692 R 0 1.1 1.0 0:01 top > > 20738 jeff 5 0 3640 3640 2796 S 0 0.5 4.4 0:00 gnome-termin > > 1 root 0 0 472 472 412 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:01 init > > 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd > > 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 kupdate > > 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kpiod > > 5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 kswapd > > 6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd > > 282 bin 0 0 292 284 220 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 portmap > > 332 root 0 0 512 512 392 S 0 0.0 0.6 0:03 syslogd > > 340 root 0 0 732 732 312 S 0 0.0 0.8 0:00 klogd > > 353 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > > 356 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > > 357 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > > 358 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > > 359 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > > > > -- > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Registered Linux User 348854 > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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