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Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM



Nicola Richmond  wrote:

> using lots of memory though. When I logged on, without opening any
> applications, 80% was being used.
[...]
>   961 root      15   0  150M  21M  7736 S     6.1  3.4   1:00 X

    X seems to be taking 150Mb Mine takes 
    
17276 root      19 -10 50576  31M 10172 S <   0.2 12.7  39:50 XFree86

    I guess that there's still some memory leak in X or something? At
any rate, if I've done my sums right, the tasks that you have running
don't take up 80% of your memory. Have a look at /proc/meminfo (or use
the free command) to check how much memory is disk cache.


    Regards,
    José
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