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My system
My hackergotchi:
put here for everyone to see.
Anyway. My system currently has been running for 43 days. On the desktop, there are 88 items including 1 folder of what used to be there containing 44 more items. Of these, 65 are patches and 7 are pdfs. It has 4 copies of emacs open, 3 gnome-terminals with a total of 7 tabs. In addition, it has 7 epiphany windows with a total of 37 tabs, an xchat-gnome window and an Evolution window.
With all this, the memory usage is at 55% programs (~ 560Mb), 38% cached and 33% swap in use. Epiphany has been restarted 3 times to reclaim memory from Mozilla and Nautilus has been restarted once. Random bug time for nautilus: restarting it kills all hope of getting video thumbnails (they all fail) and spatial nautilus can't open more than 1 window at a time. There are 99 updates sitting in my notification area and a "restart required".
So, what's using all the memory? Top ten memory chewing apps:
1. Epiphany - 135Mb (no flash sites)
2. Evolution - 86Mb
3. Nautilus - 62Mb
4. gnome-panel - 40Mb
5. xchat-gnome - 35Mb
6. drivel (which I'm using to write this) - 25Mb
7. gnome-terminal - 22Mb
8. emacs (1) - 20Mb
9. gnome-system-monitor - 20Mb
10. emacs (2) - 20Mb
After a nice reboot, the same (long running) apps have memory of:
Evolution: 58Mb (67% of previous memory)
Nautilus: 24Mb (39% of previous memory)
gnome-panel: 21Mb (52% of previous memory)
xchat-gnome: 20Mb (57% of previous memory)
Plus, nautilus can now thumbnail all my videos and use spatial windows properly again.
What's the point in all this? Absolutely nothing. I just thought I'd document a reboot for posterity. Plus, I'm waiting for something to happen.
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| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | December 3rd, 2007 10:02 pm (UTC) |
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| | Wow | (Link) |
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Wow, i could never get so disorganized without going into a depression, hah.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | December 3rd, 2007 10:24 pm (UTC) |
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| | Filehandles | (Link) |
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One of the things I've noticed recently is how much modern desktop environments chew through filehandles. If you have a large multiuser box with multiple remote desktop sessions you can end up with /lots/ of filehandles being used.
It would be interesting to see someone do some analysis on fd usage across various applications and desktop environments.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | December 3rd, 2007 10:48 pm (UTC) |
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| | Hmm | (Link) |
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Take gnome-system-monitor as an example takes hell to mush memory and is slow.
htop the console program take 3Mb and has more features.
I know there is a difference between console and X11 but still. There could probadly be code optimizing in lots of the gnome IMHO :-)
The first thing is we need to kill libgnome/bonbo dependies that has been disussed for years now.
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | December 3rd, 2007 11:49 pm (UTC) |
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| | Excellent post | (Link) |
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I have noticed the same things, but never put the number together like you have.
Do we put it down to memory leaks, or more likely, memory fragmentation?
| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | December 4th, 2007 07:20 am (UTC) |
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| | Re: Excellent post | (Link) |
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I would blame memory fragmentation (known case for gnome-terminal f.ex) and unlimited caches |
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