pgm memory usage

[rikona]

Hello Mark,

Thursday, November 4, 2010, 6:46:45 PM, Mark wrote:

M> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:18 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> 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?
>>
M> Sounds like you need more memory....

Perhaps so. This box was running Mandriva 2006, and was running
comparable numbers of almost the same pgms. But, I rarely had the
memory fill up as much as it seems to do now. Could this be 'program
bloat', different memory handling, or something similar? As each
'improved' version goes by, we seem to need 30-50% more memory to run
the same pgms. If this keeps up, we may need 4 gigs just to run 'hello
world' :-)  

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 rikona