how much RAM does Ubuntu need to sleep?

[Matthew Kuiken]

Me - Atlantic wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 13:27 -0400, boricua wrote:
> [snip]
>   
>> can you do ps aux|grep -i python
>>
>>     
>
> hplip     6989  0.0  0.1   8856  1304 ?        S    Jul03   0:04
> python /usr/sbin/hpssd
> john      7691 17.5 68.7 1481404 712036 ?      S    Jul03 621:16
> python /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon
>
> I don't have any idea what hpssd is, but it seems that gdesklets is the
> culprit... 
>
> But on my laptop (also running 5.10), the same command yields - 
> john 12018 2.7 5.6 31856 14556 ? S Jun30 206:04
> python /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon
>
> Why would the desktop take up 4 times the resource of the laptop?
>   

Isn't gdesklets a framework for adding little applet type modules on top 
of it?  If this is the case, do you use all the same applets on the 
desktop and the laptop?  I'd suggest removing applets until you find the 
culprit.

HTH,
-Matt