RE: [newbie] Memoryleakage in 8.2?
I'm using XFCE on a 9.0 box, but have run it on 8.2 and never noticed any mem issues. It's always seemed very light. This machine only has 48MB RAM, so it has to be for me. Have you run 'top' and then sorted by mem usage? That'll tell ya what's sucking up the memory. ~Brandon http://www.vanderberg.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anders Lind Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Memoryleakage in 8.2? Hello friends, I am experiencing some problem with my Mandrake box at work, I am using XFCE. When I rebooted 1,5 hour ago it was about 80 MB free Memory and no swap used. This was after I have started Sylpheed only. Now 1,5 hour later I have started and closed KNode down, and now I have only 4 MB free and over 20 MB of swap in use. Could somebody tell me if there is a memoryleakage known in 8.2? I am on the verge on installing FreeBSD on this machine anyway, but this made the transitiondecision easier Best Regards, Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memoryleakage in 8.2?
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 03:10:21 -0800 Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using XFCE on a 9.0 box, but have run it on 8.2 and never noticed any mem issues. It's always seemed very light. This machine only has 48MB RAM, so it has to be for me. Have you run 'top' and then sorted by mem usage? That'll tell ya what's sucking up the memory. Yeah I have run top, I think I saw what was the problem, for some reason Sylpheed snatched 93 MB of RAM. After restarting it it behaves much better, but now that I have 94 MB of RAM free, still 3,1 MB of swap is used. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memoryleakage in 8.2?
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 10:58 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing some problem with my Mandrake box at work, I am using XFCE. When I rebooted 1,5 hour ago it was about 80 MB free Memory and no swap used. This was after I have started Sylpheed only. Now 1,5 hour later I have started and closed KNode down, and now I have only 4 MB free and over 20 MB of swap in use. Could somebody tell me if there is a memoryleakage known in 8.2? I am on the verge on installing FreeBSD on this machine anyway, but this made the transitiondecision easier Best Regards, Anders And how much memory is cached? Do not forget that Linux will use almost all available physical memory as hard disc cache. Swap usage is only significant if it is forever moving processes in and out of swap. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memoryleakage in 8.2?
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:58, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing some problem with my Mandrake box at work, I am using XFCE. When I rebooted 1,5 hour ago it was about 80 MB free Memory and no swap used. This was after I have started Sylpheed only. Now 1,5 hour later I have started and closed KNode down, and now I have only 4 MB free and over 20 MB of swap in use. Could somebody tell me if there is a memoryleakage known in 8.2? I am on the verge on installing FreeBSD on this machine anyway, but this made the transitiondecision easier Best Regards, Anders Memory usage under any form of *nix is different than under OS/2, Mac or PC. Even if you are shown smaller amounts of memory, that only means that memory hasn't been flushed (buffers flushed). The bit of the OS that is given to you - remember this is a multi-user OS - can get squeezed down a bit, but once you require more memory, it's available. -- Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:40:01 +1100 11:40pm up 7 days, 9:23, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.31, 1.03 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memoryleakage in 8.2?
On Thursday 23 January 2003 01:58 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing some problem with my Mandrake box at work, I am using XFCE. When I rebooted 1,5 hour ago it was about 80 MB free Memory and no swap used. This was after I have started Sylpheed only. Now 1,5 hour later I have started and closed KNode down, and now I have only 4 MB free and over 20 MB of swap in use. Could somebody tell me if there is a memoryleakage known in 8.2? I am on the verge on installing FreeBSD on this machine anyway, but this made the transitiondecision easier Best Regards, Anders It is not unusual at all to see lots of memory taken by any modern distro It is in fact a GOOD thing, unused memory is wasted memory That does not indicate a memory leak at all. free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:257016 253200 3816 0 13980 95260 -/+ buffers/cache: 143960 113056 Swap: 401584 155980 245604 [tester@ibm333 eggdrop]$ When you actually figure out that statement, I have about 154M free or 61.6%. Just that the system routinely uses that to improve system speed. It is still available on request to programs, reducing tha amount of buffers or cache. This is why linux gets faster when you add memory. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
