On 2017-09-19 15:36, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:18:28 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2017-09-19 14:51, David C. Rankin wrote:
Stepping back a bit -- why do you need more RAM? Are you trying to keep a copy of all satellite maps in RAM at once? I get that large database apps and other server apps will use as much as you have, but with a base OS running Win7 virtualized and Arch virtualized on the same server, I barely crack 5GiB and that's allocating 2G to each guest OS?
Because my system is swapping actively. As I go from workspace to workspace I see the application that I have there (say, firefox, libreoffice) wake up, and sometimes this takes minutes.
ssd will help. Is there any way to optimize what you have running to play better in the RAM you have?
Unload apps, of course.
Firefox is huge.
< 500 MB on my machine
1,601g in mine (RES on "top"). And I see it growing while I do this, and do nothing in FF. 1,685g now. 194156 in swap. 4388012 virt.
So is Thunderbird.
Claws is a lot smaller
Maybe, but I'm used to it and its features.
Then I also use LibreOffice, also large.
< 250 MB
239300 RES currently, with only one opened document. If I open my customary calc sheets, it goes to 410176 instantly, before doing anything on them.
My system is currently using < 4 GB
More or less like mine, considering that 4 Gigs are in cache and buffers and free. cer@Telcontar:~> free -h --si total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8,2G 7,7G 458M 185M 287M 3,4G -/+ buffers/cache: 4,0G 4,2G Swap: 43G 1,4G 42G -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)