[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 13.10 High Memory Usage

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On 10/04/2013 11:22 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> If you want to get a glimpse of how complex it is to estimate "memory
> use", you can read the PDF in that folder:
> http://www.selenic.com/smem/download/
>
> Also, the smem tool (in the same folder) will help evaluate more
> precisely how much memory is consumed and by what.

Thanks for the link Antoine.  I also found a neat website: 
http://www.linuxatemyram.com

It explains the memory situation and also shows the difference in output 
between top and htop.  I've discovered the command 'free -m' which shows 
how much is allocated to disk cache vs actually being used.

With that, Manjaro XFCE on the netbook is only using 252 MB, which is 
more along the lines of what I was expecting.

Now that I've played with Manjaro/Arch on the netbook, I'm going to 
reinstall Xubuntu 13.10 and do some proper user testing.