pgm memory usage

[Rashkae]

On 10-11-04 09:18 PM, rikona wrote:
> I have about 10 copies of konq open on all the desktops. Three of them
> are using about 30% of memory. They are all being used to see dir
> listings - none are on the net. Also have 10 'opera' browsers running,
> using 50+% of mem, and I'm getting swap issues[~80-90% of swap is
> used]. Switching pgms is quite slow. Is there a way to tell which
> copies, **in the GUI**, are using how much memory, or, alternatively,
> can I get the PID for a *particular* pgm in the GUI?
>
> thanks,
>
>      rikona
>    


I'm afraid that when you are dealing with a shared Library / Shared 
Memory / demand paging Operting system (like any of the modern desktop 
OS's), determining memory usage of individual windows is close to 
impossible.  It's doable, but it's a very black art, and certainly not 
something that can be done from within a GUI.

However, for the purpose of troubleshooting Memory starvation issues, 
here is my favorite 'trick,'.  It doesn't give you scientific 
measurements, but will point you in the direction you want to solve your 
workload issues.

Issue command in a terminal window:
cat /proc/meminfo | grep Commited

that should show you your "Committed_AS" value.  This is what you want 
to reduce,  ideally, for best performance, you want this to be less than 
your physical ram, though that's not always possible on low memory systems.

Try closing some windows, and check the command again at each one.  I 
think you'll find that the Konq windows take up very little (unless you 
close all of them)