Re: Clearing SWAP

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri May 2 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I don't think anyone said that XFCE4 used as much CPU power as KDE, its
> the memory thing that makes GTK2 a pain for me.  While I use Konq for
> most browsing there are a couple of websites I use that have bugs that
> only Iceweasel can ignore.  I need to use my big box for that, then of
> course get back out of Iceweasel to a saner world.

big box, small box.. I have one desktop and 1 laptop...

>
> I used to use XFCE4-terminal, since it did what I need in a way I like,
> but if I left it open, away would go the memory.  Now I have mrxvt setup
> to work almost the same as the XFCE4 terminal (nice fonts, tabs,
> off-white background, etc) with far less memory used.

I always leave terminals up and running.. right now I have a shell - Konsole 
window and a terminal - terminal window.. I'm not sure what the difference 
is, but one is black text on white, the other is white text on black. I'm in 
the middle of a movie conversion using ffmpeg and I am getting:
 

top - 08:17:17 up 19:26,  4 users,  load average: 1.04, 1.36, 1.45
Tasks: 174 total,   3 running, 169 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
Cpu(s): 50.4%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2075308k total,  2024600k used,    50708k free,   118460k buffers
Swap:  2104472k total,      816k used,  2103656k free,  1128936k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 8268 pbc       25   0 31640  18m 2176 R  100  0.9  53:51.56 ffmpeg             
 5223 root      16   0 87180  58m  12m S    1  2.9  37:45.27 Xorg               
 6012 pbc       15   0 27224  15m 8824 R    0  0.8   0:01.59 xfce4-terminal     
    1 root      15   0  2088  716  612 S    0  0.0   0:03.16 init               
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/0        
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:06.25 ksoftirqd/0        
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1        
    5 root      34  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 ksoftirqd/1        
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.10 events/0           
    7 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 events/1           
    8 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0 

and that doesn't include the other user logged in..
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Paul Cartwright
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