On 4/17/2014 2:49 PM, Lars Kruczynski wrote:
On openSUSE 13.1 x64 with KDE 4.11.5 and the "radeon" kernel driver, I have noticed that plasma-desktop increases in memory size the longer my desktop is up, and it crawls up over 200 MB easily when opening widgets. When closing widgets, activities, etc., the memory is not freed. Switching activities and creating new activities also does this. At the same time, Xorg can take over 400 MB of ram in less than a day, depending on what I am doing. kded4 also can start hogging ram as plasma-desktop increases its memory footprint.
How familiar with Linux in general are you Lars? (I ask only because of your reference to windows 7.) Micro-managing memory usage on linux is usually a fool's errand. The system knows better than you, and it works differently than other OSs. Linux works on the principal that unused memory is wasted memory. It also reports shared memory, which applications may access, but which are perhaps owned by another part of the system. Maybe all any given app has is a handle/pointer to this memory. It still gets counted as used by each app even though it belongs to a group of apps. There a lot of pitfalls while evaluating memory usage. The real test is if you are inconvenienced by consumption of memory. I fire up System Monitor, and watch the memory usage tab while I launch and close applications, it always goes back to what was in use before. If I launch something that minimizes itself but continues to run, I expect to see it use more. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org