On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:00:45PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > >On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote: > >>even though i'm not running anything. > >> > >>in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc > >>dependencies. > >> > >>in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally > >>minimal > >>system i believe the later. > >> > >>however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that > >>much. > >> > >>what's wrong with it? why is it using up my ram? > >> > >>atm, just ruunning xfce takes 200mb. nothing stupid is installed, the > >>whole point was for a fast system > > > >I've already seen the same question today, about memory being eaten up, > >and that too was someone using xfce. The answer was that xfce suffers > >from memory leaks. > > > >The thing to do is log out of xfce, restart it, and keep an eye on > >memory useage. If it is a memory leak problem, you should initially see > >hardly any memory being used, and this will slowly creep up with the > >passing of time. > > > >Nigel. > > > > > > Oh. kinda contradictory for the 'light' DE. Still, they seem on the > ball. I'm sure it'll be sorted in no time
well, 'light' means their philosophy is to have a less resource intensive DE. memory leaks are, of course, bugs where memory is not properly freed after being used and are bugs as opposed to problems in the philosophy. I am curious about your sluggishness though, as I've had xfce running for days with multiple apps open and problems. Currently I've got 2 or 3 terminals, iceweasel, openoffice, xfmedia and gnucash all up and running for about 5 days and am only using 460MB of my 1 GB total mem/swap. Are you running one of the *dm's? if so which one? A
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