First of all, I want to thank everyone who has contributed (and who might yet contribute) to this thread--I think I'm learning quite a bit, but I do have more comments/questions:
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 06:04 am, Pol wrote: > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > What process uses most memory according to top? > > This is the normal condition, cut from the 'top' command > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP COMMAND > 5997 pol 15 0 91408 31m 11m S 0.0 4.2 0:53.22 57m konqueror > 6032 pol 15 0 76712 24m 11m S 4.3 3.3 6:20.76 50m konqueror > 6043 pol 15 0 93880 41m 14m S 0.0 5.5 1:11.19 50m konqueror Posting a recent snapshot of the top of my top: PID USER PR NI VIRT SHR RES S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP COMMAND 3242 root 15 0 202m 1972 100m S 2.3 20.0 4464:08 102m X 10217 rhk 15 0 122m 13m 91m S 2.0 18.1 293:15.56 31m konqueror 21648 rhk 15 0 79040 17m 56m S 0.0 11.2 99:33.39 20m konqueror 9757 rhk 15 0 74300 2528 9804 S 0.3 1.9 54:44.96 62m artsd 9735 rhk 15 0 67564 5716 9700 S 0.0 1.9 20:17.15 56m kded 31707 rhk 16 0 64168 20m 39m S 0.0 7.8 14:15.36 23m kmail 1173 rhk 16 0 56380 17m 39m S 0.0 7.9 46:52.97 15m konqueror 31911 rhk 15 0 51396 9516 10m S 0.0 2.2 2:49.77 39m kget 19596 rhk 15 0 50568 10m 35m S 0.0 7.0 1:12.40 14m nspluginviewer Hmm, the columns don't look very good as I write this (without a fixed-width font)--hope they look better for others. This is a snapshot after I killed java and mysql--I'm not entirely sure why either was running, but java had a virtual image of something like 207m (which I presume is MB) and mysql was at 117m. (I'm sure I installed both, but a lot of java things don't work anyway in konqueror, so I don't expect things to get any worse without it, and I did install mysql with the intention of experimenting with some small databases just to learn it--but it had a virtual image of 117 MB--I'll try to do without it. (Maybe slocate or kat (which I've disabled) use mysql?) Anyway, before I killed java and mysql, the virtual image for X was at 157m--now I see that it's grown to 202m--wtf? Also, I guess I don't really understand what the virtual image is--I thought it would be the total amount of memory used, whether currently in RAM or swapped out, and thus, it would always be bigger than the RES (resident) size, but I see that's not true, e.g., one of the konqueror's has 39m RES and 56380 VIRT. (And, I don't know how SHR fits into this.) Anyway: * I'll appreciate any comments re the above * I'll keep running top sorted by VIRT, and seriously consider killing apps when they get big. (For example, I know which konqueror has the 122m VIRT (because I start it from the konsole and then keep a record of the PID) and will start closing tabs (after doing what I planned to do with those pages) in it until I can close it altogether and start a new instance.) It is interesting that apparently some web pages use much more memory than others, and I suspect it's not based solely on "raw" content--anyway, I want to start trying to notice which pages are real hogs, then either avoid opening them, or opening them in a "throwaway" instance of konqueror. Thanks again! Randy Kramer PS: Per another post, I've also reduced my swappiness from 60 (apparently the default on Mandriva2006) to 10. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
