2007/8/14, Lorenzo Milesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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.
this is due to the low dma access. 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! try a thing: lsmod, dmesg, ps on ubuntu to see what modules does it load and what does when it starts. 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 > > -- dott. ing. beso
