Andreas Janssen wrote:
somethin2cool (<somethin2cool@yahoo.com>) wrote:even though i'm not running anything. in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies. in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally minimal system i believe the later. however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that much. what's wrong with it? why is it using up my ram? atm, just ruunning xfce takes 200mb. nothing stupid is installed, the whole point was for a fast systemandreas@sirius:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 504 497 7 0 28 211 -/+ buffers/cache: 256 247 Swap: 1023 134 889 That means: 504 mbytes of RAM are used, but this includes 211 mbytes that are used for file caching. The cache size will decrease when applications need the RAM. The second line shows you how much RAM is used without the cache. Also take a look at top or htop. regards Andreas Janssen
I see. That does make sense, but lets say I have 2 instances of mousepad, 2 thunars, and 2 catfishes, then it takes over a minute to start seamonkey, 4 seconds to start terminal. This doesn't sound like anything is manageing the ram.
stats: celeron 1.3, 256ddr2 ram, 4gb /now, yesterday i could have all this stuff open and everything would still fly (as it should). since then i have installed a few things (catfish, avg, ntfs-3g, deluge, gqview, xpdf, linuxdcpp, avidemux - all with the excellent aptitude). I wouldn't have thought I should see any difference in performance. I don't have a swap partition, which i know is bad, but this is a learning exercise for now, not a production environment. (and it was awesome yesterday without a swap)
top seems very interesting, and htop will be my new task manager :-) but everything they show is fine:
I'd paste the outputs, but they wont let me copy and apparently my terminal can't export to file (ie log). nothing interesting reported there anyway.
and yet having just turned it on, i'm looking at 272mb used, with just seamonkey and htop running.