* Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk> [09-19-17 09:36]:
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
So is Thunderbird.
Claws is a lot smaller
Then I also use LibreOffice, also large.
< 250 MB
My system is currently using < 4 GB
<from systemmonitor> Process 28513 - firefox Summary The process firefox (with pid 28513) is using approximately 3.8 GB of memory. It is using 3.7 GB privately, 3.3 MB for pixmaps, and a further 295.2 MB that is, or could be, shared with other programs. Dividing up the shared memory between all the processes sharing that memory we get a reduced shared memory usage of 138.6 MB. Adding that to the private and pixmap usage, we get the above mentioned total memory footprint of 3.8 GB. Library Usage The memory usage of a process is found by adding up the memory usage of each of its libraries, plus the process's own heap, stack and any other mappings, plus the stack of its 83 threads. Private more 3741532 KB [heap] 37960 KB /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so 25728 KB /SYSV00000000 (deleted) 16740 KB /dev/nvidiactl 2356 KB /usr/lib64/libnvidia-glcore.so.384.69 Shared more 113396 KB /SYSV00000000 (deleted) 8104 KB /dev/shm/org.chromium.m3g8Ek (deleted) 8104 KB /dev/shm/org.chromium.8s9IqF (deleted) 8104 KB /dev/shm/org.chromium.n84qvd (deleted) 8104 KB /dev/shm/org.chromium.ZiLV7t (deleted) Totals Pixmap 3330 KB (Might be stored in the graphics card's memory) Private 3836616 KB (= 227860 KB clean + 3608756 KB dirty) Shared 302288 KB (= 30348 KB clean + 271940 KB dirty) Rss 4138904 KB (= Private + Shared) Pss 3978528 KB (= Private + Shared/Number of Processes) Swap 0 KB </from systemmonitor> but I have 32gig resident and no swap. and I know Carlos keeps several firefox sessions open. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org