Plasmoids and Power Consumption

[Eberhard Roloff]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 12:42:05 pm John DeCarlo 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?
> 
> It is one of the downloaded plasmoids.  I have since looked for the entries 
> for the plasmoids that I use for statistics and cannot find them among the ones 
> listed when you click on add widgets.  As far as the plasmoids, they don't 
> show a help or about entry, and don't have a title bar.  Here is how they are 
> named:  Memory | Swap Space Usage, AMD Phenom(fm) 9600Quad-Core Processor, 
> File System Usage :  Free | Used | Capacity | Utilized, Tasks :187 COMMAND 
> USER %CPU  ALL, Network ethO: IP adress[misspld.] |  Gateway |  Name Servers, 
> and Established Connections: 0.
>> Linux will try to use all memory available, where useful.  Why have unused
>> RAM, when you could be caching, etc.?
> 
> The only thing running right now except the 7 plasmoids running statistics, is 
> Kontact, and 5.813gb of memory is in use.  I removed 9.   Does that seem 
> right?
>> 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.
> I am reading up on Memory leaks.  Is that something I should consider?
> 
> What is the command that indicates what is using what and how much?
> 
> Steven
> 
Hi Steven,
my advice is to carefully reread Billie Erin's mail and then act 
accordingly.
Simply forget about it as long as <insert here, what Billie said>

Kind regards and have a great day
Eberhard