On Monday 20 June 2005 07:31 pm, Zack Cerza wrote: > On 2005 June 20 Monday 18:29, Ricardo Galli wrote: > > On Tuesday, 21 de June de 2005 00:21, Zack Cerza shaped the electrons to > > > > shout: > > > Yep. From top, sorting by "%MEM": > > > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > > > COMMAND > > > 9379 zack 15 0 2202m 409m 8640 S 0.0 40.4 9:31.38 kded > > > 9070 root 6 -10 100m 64m 2300 S 1.2 6.4 12:53.23 > > > XFree86 > > > [snip] > > > > > > I've got 1024MB of RAM, so it looks like kded is using over 400MB. The > > > next greediest process is XFree86, using about 60MB. Not cool. :) > > > > top is not the right tool to measure memory consumption. OTH the xfree > > memoryu consuption issue has been clarified several times. One is the top > > misleading figures, the others is that it counts the graphic card memory. > > Er, I know that - but it's still ridiculous, no? > > What I don't know (and you didn't say) is what the right tool is. > FWIW, I was using `ps axu | grep kded'. But it seems to give the same number as top, so... I don't know.
Anyone?
