Memory usage

[Billie Walsh]

On 11/28/2010 11:41 PM, Cristopher Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 23:37 +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>    
>> Perhaps that's the culprit application. If not someone else suggests
>> something better, try disabling it as a test.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 23:45 +0300, Cristopher Thomas wrote:
>>      
>>> Gnome Do, I believe.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 23:37, Ioannis Vranos
>>> <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr>  wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 23:14 +0300, Cristopher Thomas wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> I'm not really sure how best to describe my problem, but I have a couple
>>>>> screenshots here that will hopefully help:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1028931/htopOnBoot.png
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1028931/1DayLater.png
>>>>>
>>>>> Both screenshots were taken with approximately the same programs
>>>>> running, with the exception that in the 1DayLater shot I was running
>>>>> DockbarX instead of Docky.  Looking at the Memory usage indicator at the
>>>>> top left, you can see that the numbers are pretty close.  However, the
>>>>> bar indicator in the second shot shows that significantly more memory is
>>>>> being used that in the first.  What I'm trying to figure out is where
>>>>> the discrepency is coming from.
>>>>>
>>>>> Generally I only reboot my computer when an update has been installed
>>>>> that requires it.  However, since installing Maverick I've found that if
>>>>> I do that, after a few days the system starts slowing down and even
>>>>> freezing up occasionally.  Then I reboot and the cycle begins again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Based on my limited understanding of how memory is used, it seems to me
>>>>> that instructions are being cached, but somehow that space is not being
>>>>> made available later.  That was probably gibberish, but if you have a
>>>>> better idea of what is happening, help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>            
>>>>
>>>> What's that Do.exe that is running by the way?
>>>>          
>>      
> Over the past week I've tried disabling a few different applications
> that I thought likely culprits.  Gnome Do, Zeitgeist, offlineimap,
> Dropbox... Still no luck.
>
> Oddly enough, I've also noticed that swap isn't being used at all, which
> seems weird.
>    

I could be wrong, and I'm sure that if I am someone will correct me. If 
I remember correctly your OS will use memory to the maximum amount 
available before it uses swap. If you have sufficient memory to run 
whatever applications are open it will show the memory maxed out and 
nothing in swap.

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