Very high RAM usage.

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Ya, uhm, okay, not much more than that. I have CRAP hardware and only 494 MBs of RAM (Yes, tiny amount), and I use, on average, 450-480 MBs of that in a normal session with little to none KDE eyecandy and Karamba themes and Firefox and Konversation open... so, ja, does anyone know why?

~Thanks ya very much!

[ms1234]

ps ww -e k -rss o pid,pmem,command,rss,size,vsz|head -20 will list the 20 most memory hungry programs

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Linux is very efficient with ram. what app are you using to determine your ram usage? If you are using free, it is probably very acurate, but it shows all ram usage (including cached), and the actual amount of usage is usually much less.
try something like gnome-system-monitor. and you may be surprised to see you are "actively" using less than 300MB.
Example, here is what I show with free

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515168     462392      52776          0      34852     182304

but gnome-system-monitor shows 243MB actively in use.

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Originally Posted by u-noneinc-s

Linux is very efficient with ram. what app are you using to determine your ram usage? If you are using free, it is probably very acurate, but it shows all ram usage (including cached), and the actual amount of usage is usually much less.
try something like gnome-system-monitor. and you may be surprised to see you are "actively" using less than 300MB.
Example, here is what I show with free

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515168     462392      52776          0      34852     182304

but gnome-system-monitor shows 243MB actively in use.

Yes, I was using Free. XD

Ah, I am only using 271.

Thank'ee very much.

Originally Posted by ms1234

ps ww -e k -rss o pid,pmem,command,rss,size,vsz|head -20 will list the 20 most memory hungry programs

Thanks for that.