Negative caching
Hal Burgiss
hal at burgiss.net
Sat Jun 20 14:28:24 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:38:55PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:16:00PM -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> >
> > Incidentally, if you want to see how much memory is being demanded by
> > certain applications, /proc/meminfo is a great tool. Take a look a
>
> Hmmm .... I killed everything I have opened except 3 terminal windows,
> including a few background things like nautilus and evolution, and I still
> have a problem:
This is gnome w/o compiz, nautilus and evolution after 2 day uptime.
> CommitLimit: 3512236 kB
> Committed_AS: 1769624 kB
>
> I'll kill X later and see where that gets. But it looks like X + gnome + basic
> system stuff is eating me out of house and home, so to speak. I did the same
> thing on my work system and it dropped to ~1.2G.
I've played some more with this. Further results:
Logged out of X, sitting at GDM login:
CommitLimit: 3512236 kB
Committed_AS: 452512 kB
Log back in / GNOME (including nautilus,etc, but no user apps and no effects):
CommitLimit: 3512236 kB
Committed_AS: 789400 kB
Reboot / at GDM login:
CommitLimit: 3512236 kB
Committed_AS: 482064 kB
Start XFCE new session w/compiz:
CommitLimit: 3512236 kB
Committed_AS: 660792 kB
Log out
Start GNOME new session w/o compiz:
CommitLimit: 3512236 kB
Committed_AS: 878332 kB
(Reboot, new kernel courtesy of updates)
XFCE w/compiz and 1 konsole window after reboot, no user opened apps:
CommitLimit: 3512248 kB
Committed_AS: 709192 kB
XFCE w/typical app mix including FF, Chrome, multiple Konsole windows and a few vims.
CommitLimit: 3512248 kB
Committed_AS: 1577520 kB
Hmmmm. Hungry system.
--
Hal
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