[lug] KDE 2.2

[Robert George Mayer]

I am running KDE 2.1.1. I stay logged on for weeks at a time and X seems to 
get quite large.  Netscape would be larger than it is if I did not have to 
kill it once in a while after it goes into a loop.  The system has only been
up for a week because my office is also the guest room and the system fans are 
noisy.

 10:45am  up 7 days, 12:54, 16 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.14
165 processes: 164 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  1.4% user,  2.0% system,  0.0% nice, 96.4% idle
Mem:   384480K av,  372492K used,   11988K free,       0K shrd,    4364K buff
Swap:  530104K av,  155096K used,  375008K free                  102116K cached
 
  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 1908 root      11   0  206M 140M 20576 S     0.5 37.4 531:27 X
21736 mayer      9   0 99012  96M 10952 S     0.0 25.7   8:45 netscape-commun
 8179 mayer      9   0 20656  19M  7204 S     0.0  5.1   1:14 kdeinit
 8685 mayer      9   0 16892  16M  4660 S     0.0  4.3  32:53 xemacs
12283 mayer      9   0 12948  11M  7792 S     0.0  3.0   0:17 kdeinit
10696 mayer      9   0 10108 8504  5880 S     0.0  2.2   0:18 kdeinit

My next system will have 768M of memory - I do not want to limp along with
only 384M.  =:<(

- BOB

"Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> 
> I recall some talk about memory use in X and the speaker mentioned
> that some tools show all of the memory that X has access to, including
> the cache on the video card, the size of the agp bus, etc.  I don't
> know is SIZE below is one of those and regardless, 238M seems pretty
> big.  I'm running kde 2.1.1 and not showing anything like the X
> memory usage that you are.  Of course my video card is an old S3 pci
> with
> basically no on-board cache.
> 
> Scott
> 
> John Hernandez wrote:
> >
> > I'm running RH 7.1 with the recently released KDE 2.2 and KOffice 1.1 RPMs.  The X server has really grown large according to the SIZE field in top (code plus data plus stack space), but I don't really remember how it behaved before.  On the other hand, use of physical memory pages seems to be halfway reasonable, so I guess lots of pages are getting swapped out (I show 53M swap in use).  It's been running for 2 days now, but it rarely runs longer than that before I log out (which returns me to console login).  I haven't noticed a slowdown, but I've got ample RAM to fill.  I also recently configured the NVidia driver, which may contribute to the bloat factor.  Of the KDE processes themselves, I don't show any major hogs, with KDE being the largest at 7M SIZE / 6M RSS.  What does yours show?
> >
> >   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> >  9234 me         9   0 17900  16M  9488 S     0.0  6.7   0:07 netscape-commun
> >  7334 root      18   0  238M  16M 11324 R     2.1  6.6   5:50 X
> >
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