system resources

[Bill Marcum]

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:12:27 -0400, Me - Atlantic 
  <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
> On my desktop running 5.10 (Breezy), I have evolution mail and a gnome
> terminal running.  Firestarter is also running (in the system tray), and
> I have 3 gdesklets on the desktop (RAM, ETH, DISK).
>
> I notice when running top that python is using 850m of virtual ram.
> Can someone tell me why python is the dominant process (7 times higher
> than Xorg !) with only these other user processes running?
>
pstree can show what process is the parent of python.  "ps -A -f" lists 
all processes with their command line arguments.


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