On 8/14/07, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly is filling up memory? Try running top and sorting by > memory use (shortcut key "M"). 500MB of RAM isn't a huge amount - > certainly plenty for ordinary use but if you have two X displays, 15 > daemons, 12 web browsers, and OpenOffice running you're going to run out > fast. You'll definitely run into problems if you're running emerge > while doing other work as well, as large builds will use much of that > 500MB of RAM and will keep that memory tied up with active use.
I agree that 512mb of ram is quite few nowadays, but should be pretty enough for daily usage. For daily usage I mean: Firefox, Thunderbird, few Gnome-terminal, Pidgin, Skype, F-Spot. The latest is one of the biggest memory-consumption app, having to manage thousands of digital pictures, a lot of them >4m. When I run F-Spot and do some photo editing (cuts and exports, noting particularly advanced!), I fill up ram+swap(512). In the meantime the disk never stops spinning. The second memory-eating app is Firefox, maybe due to the extensions installed. I also say it should be running fine because I tried the same F-Spot with the same photos db on this same laptop but running Ubuntu and it's at least twice faster! I believe the problem must rely somewhere between the kernel and the disk access. I also thought it could be the cflags I used, but noone of you didn't even mention them. Thanks! maxxer ps if it can be useful I've uploaded a "ps faux" at www.maxxer.it/config/ps.gz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
