Apparently, though unproven, at 10:54 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly:
> On 09/19/2010 11:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, > > Florian > > > > Philipp did opine thusly: > >> Hi list! > >> > >> I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for > >> breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage > >> grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. > >> > >> The following statistics have been taken after 8 days of uptime during > >> which the system was on standby most of the time during work days and at > >> night. > >> > >> free -m > >> > >> total used free shared buffers cached > >> > >> Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 > >> -/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482 > >> Swap: 6142 978 5163 > >> [...] > > > > Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do not > > mean what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic. > > However, the values reported by "free -m" are somewhat useful and > indicate that something is very wrong with memory consumption on his > system. What specific numbers and what appears to be out of place? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
