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5th May 2008, 01:08 AM
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High memory use.
I just installed the 64 bit version of Fedora 9 and have noticed very high memory use, around 400 MB.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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5th May 2008, 01:23 AM
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Mine's even higher at 519MB. Why should it bother you?
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5th May 2008, 01:26 AM
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I have never seen my memory use that high. Usually it is around 180 MB.
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5th May 2008, 01:46 AM
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I haven't seen memory usage below 256Megs for quite a while. Multiple apps running or lots of open windows maybe adding to memory use. It don't let it bother me, so long as the memory usage isn't causing F9 to perform slowly, or not respond in a reasonable amount of time.
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5th May 2008, 01:57 AM
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I'm at 520mb with gnome, skype, firefox, openoffice, emacs, and a few terminals open.
Have you tried running xfce or rox? They should be more lightweight. KDE is, IMO, superbloated, and Gnome has more than I want. I'm not surprised that they're running 400-500mb.
To compare, Windows Vista on my machine, with nothing open, runs at 850mb. On my normal workload, it hits 1100mb and starts swapping out pages to the point where everything slows down and never uses more than 1.2GB. Why not use the whole 2 GB, windows?
Sorry for that. If you use Rox, let me know how it works.
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5th May 2008, 03:18 AM
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When I closed firefox my memory usage dropped 95MB to 425MB. Yet another reason to ditch FF.
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5th May 2008, 09:07 AM
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FF has a known-not yet fixed memory leak issue so don't be amaized that it eats more than 100Mb of RAM (yet, I like it better than Opera ).
On the other hand, 400Mb used by F9, compared to the memory Microsoft SOs eat up, seems very little, in a world where 2Gb of RAM became standard.
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5th May 2008, 09:27 AM
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I did some searching and found some information on advantages and disadvantages of running 64 bit OS's, one of the things mentioned was higher memory use. Thanks to your replies and the article I learned something.
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5th May 2008, 10:50 PM
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If your moving from kde 3 to 4 then you'll notice a very large increase in memory. Everything has slowed down to a crawl in my 256 mb ram system. Ive read somewhere that kde4 uses 40% less memory. Thats just not true. Plasma eats up a lot of memory and X now is even hungrier. I dont think it has to do with fedora 9 itself.
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6th May 2008, 06:06 AM
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One last question:
Do you have the default services running? There are likely some that can be turned off, saving you some memory, but it may not be much.
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