On 09/19/2010 01:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:54 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Nikos
Chantziaras did opine thusly:
On 09/19/2010 11:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010,
Florian
Philipp did opine thusly:
Hi list!
I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for
breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage
grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior.
The following statistics have been taken after 8 days of uptime during
which the system was on standby most of the time during work days and at
night.
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258
-/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482
Swap: 6142 978 5163
[...]
Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do not
mean what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic.
However, the values reported by "free -m" are somewhat useful and
indicate that something is very wrong with memory consumption on his
system.
What specific numbers and what appears to be out of place?
This:
-/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482