Plasmoids and Power Consumption

[Antonio Augusto (Mancha)]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 13:42, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> I installed 16 of the system info plasmoids on my computer.  I just
>> noticed
>> that with only Kontact waiting for messages, 7111mb of memory are being
>> consumed.  Is it possible that these plasmoids could be using that much
>> RAM?
>>
>> I like them, but not that much.  With 8gb of RAM, I didn't think I could
>> use
>> that much.  I have less than a gig remaining, for normal operation of the
>> computer.
>
> What tool are you using for the statistics?
>
> Linux will try to use all memory available, where useful.  Why have unused
> RAM, when you could be caching, etc.?
>
> I have installed a plasmoid that shows memory usage, distinguishing between
> completely unused, used for cache, and used directly.  Even with 4 GB of
> RAM, it is almost always mostly cache.
>
> In other words - you probably have 6+ GB of RAM for normal operations, even
> with 7+GB being used.
>

A bit of thread stealing but, which plasmoid are you using John?
I'm looking for something in these lines...