memory usage

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Thank you very much for the link to the Gentoo forum. A little bit of
knowledge about how Linux manages memory has put my mind to ease (not
that I am an expert on Linux memory management now). I will no longer
be surprised to see my RAM being close to full. From what I understood
in reading the Gentoo forum post, it is not a terrible thing to have a
bloated swap either. Am I correct?



Now I can 'free -m' (free my mind!)  \\:D/ 



Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) Wrote: 
> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 22:28 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:

> > Hi all, I am running hoary on a Dell desktop with 1 Gb ram.  If I
> leave

> > my computer on for a day or so, the memory usage just keeps going up
> and

> > up, even if I am not running anything.  At most I will have firefox,

> > Evo, and some music playing, but it will still show 88-90% memory
> usage.

> > 27-30% will be cached.

> 

> Linux _should_ be using 90% ram, see

> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175419

> 

> > Is there some way to clean this up and monitor

> > what is causing the rise in mem usage?

> 

> When using top, order your processes by resident memory usage :

> press "O" (for Order by)

> press "q" (well, for resident memory usage)

> 

> So that you see the most ram-eating processes.

> 

> >  Here is what my top lookslike....

> > .

> > .

> > .

> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

> >  6192 root      16   0  187m  55m  10m S  7.7  5.5  26:47.57 Xorg

> >  7545 malespin  15   0  179m 169m  17m S  2.7 16.8  56:07.42 python

> 

> python is eating much of your ram.

> You can check with "cat /proc/pythonpid/cmdline" the full python

> command line.

> If this is gdesklets, i think gdesklets are badly broken in hoary,

> don't use them.

> 

> 

> ------

> Regards.

> 

> Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>

> 

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