My thoughts confirmed.... about 13.10

[c. marlow]

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 20:55 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 10 April 2014 18:12, c. marlow <chris at marlows.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 17:29 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> >> On 10 April 2014 16:57, c. marlow <chris at marlows.org> wrote:
> >> > I just googled my issue and it DOES look like 13.10 does have a memory
> >> > leak issue and the only thing you can do when it gets up real high is
> >> > either log off and back on to get it down from 1.1 gig back to 400 mb or
> >> > go and kill gnome-session and when it takes you back to the log in
> >> > screen just sign back in.... or when I get done just log off everytime
> >> > and sign in when im ready to get back on the computer
> >> >
> >> > ugh......... just my luck I should of installed 13.04 or 12.04
> >>
> >> I have not seen any such issues.  Is there a bug report for this?
> >> Does the system monitor show that a particular app is using lots of memory?
> >>
> >> You could always try 14.04.  Not much point installing 13.10 at the
> >> moment anyway when the next version is due any day.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >
> >
> > This was taken this morning Colin, I left NOTHING open... I went to bed
> > forgot to put pc in standby and just had turned the monitor off. I woke
> > up around 2 am and saw this.
> >
> > http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/UBUNTU/damnunity_zps86c07b3b.png
> 
> It is using less than half of the available RAM and virtually no swap.
>  That is probably nothing to worry about.  Linux will use available
> RAM for disk buffers and so on when it can in order to speed up the
> system.  If that is what is happening then the memory will be freed up
> if it is required.
> 
> If there were a significant memory leak then you would probably the
> swap usage go up.
> 
> Next time it happens run top in a terminal and post the two lines
> showing the memory usage.
> 
> Colin
> 


Ok Here you go here is my TOP ....  I walked away came back and Ubuntu
was at 1.1 gig being used.

http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/UBUNTU/TOP.jpeg




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c. marlow <chris at marlows.org>