What is "residual memory"? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all. I reported a bug in Amarok ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288876 ) where it sometimes consumes over 10% of my RAM on startup, and it was closed with this comment: Well, there is the virtual memory but it is the residual memory use that matters. Yours us just 371M which is abs

Re: What is "residual memory"? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread shimi
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all. > > I reported a bug in Amarok ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288876 ) > where it sometimes consumes over 10% of my RAM on startup, and it was > closed > with this comment: > > > Well, there is the virtual memory but it is

Re: What is "residual memory"? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shlomi Fish writes: > Hi all. > > I reported a bug in Amarok ( > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288876 ) where it sometimes > consumes over 10% of my RAM on startup, and it was closed with this > comment: > > Well, there is the virtual memory but it is the residual memory > use that ma

Windows bashing: Dan buses

2011-12-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
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Re: What is "residual memory"? Can anyone explain?

2011-12-16 Thread Raz
i tend to calculate a process' memory consumption in deltas, meaning, how memory it consumes in addition to the shared sections. So i usually take a look at the write-able and private consumption as reported by pmap. ( pmap ). Please note, there are numerous discussions of how to estimate system/p

[JOB] WebCollage is looking for a System and Network administrator

2011-12-16 Thread Amos Shapira
This was forwarded to me through a friend, apply to care...@webcollage.com: http://www.webcollage.com/about-us/careers/system-and-network-administrator/ Content copied here: We are looking for a system and networking administrator for joining a company developing an innovative SaaS (software-as-

questuins about linux

2011-12-16 Thread itamar ben shalom
Hello, I had tried for the last 2 months about 40 different linux systems I was installing them on both Lenovo X40, P4 1.2 Ghz, 1.5 GB ram and on a Lenovo X60s, 1.6 dual core, 1.5 GB ram. I am getting stuck in the same status every time, even after finding stable systems to work for me : ubuntu, l

free sms via vipdgin

2011-12-16 Thread sara fink
It is now possible to send free sms to orange & pelephone with new version of pidgin. I tried and it worked. http://www.linuxguide.org.il/ubuntu/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A9_%D7%91Pidgin_%D7%9C%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%97%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D Maybe it's about time to pre

Re: questuins about linux

2011-12-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, You're trying 40 different Linux systems, and yet you're not giving enough info about your problems: 1. What are you trying to play? Which files? FLA? FLA files (if you mean Adobe's FLA files) are not going to run under Linux since you'll need Adobe's Windows tools. You can try to use Wine, b