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treeman1111
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 Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 11:08 pm Post subject: Massive memory usage when running just the console |
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Hey, I am rather amazed with this, after recently installing Funtoo, I set up X and ran conky. It showed that 6 GB's of my RAM were being used....by nothing. What is causing this, and how do I fix it?
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top - 15:08:27 up 2:58, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.40, 0.67
Tasks: 244 total, 1 running, 243 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.5 us, 0.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 98.6 id, 0.6 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 32878816 total, 6477044 used, 26401772 free, 404 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free, 685880 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
26583 root 20 0 326568 120160 100516 S 3.222 0.365 0:07.96 X
26608 duncan 20 0 568452 70316 40240 S 0.967 0.214 0:03.61 chrome
26686 duncan 20 0 937972 52120 29032 S 0.967 0.159 0:02.24 chrome
26714 duncan 20 0 410108 14380 10432 S 0.967 0.044 0:00.14 gnome-terminal
626 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.322 0.000 0:00.59 kworker/4:1
1197 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.322 0.000 0:03.92 z_wr_iss/6
26599 duncan 20 0 501828 4320 3412 S 0.322 0.013 0:00.87 conky
1 root 20 0 4216 704 608 S 0.000 0.002 0:00.67 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.56 kworker/0:0
5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
7 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/u:0H
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.09 migration/0
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 rcu_bh
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:10.58 rcu_sched
11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.28 migration/1
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/1
14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H
15 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.08 migration/2
16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/2
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/2:0
18 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/2:0H
19 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.65 migration/3
20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/3
22 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/3:0H
23 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.07 migration/4
24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/4
26 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/4:0H
27 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.28 migration/5
28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/5
29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/5:0
30 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/5:0H
31 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.06 migration/6
32 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/6
33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/6:0
34 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/6:0H
35 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.27 migration/7
36 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.05 ksoftirqd/7
38 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/7:0H
39 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 khelper
40 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs
41 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 netns
362 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 bdi-default
364 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kblockd
498 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 ata_sff
506 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 khubd
513 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 md
522 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/0:1
523 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 cfg80211
627 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 rpciod
628 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.58 kworker/6:1
629 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/7:1
630 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.56 kworker/2:1
666 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kswapd0
732 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 fsnotify_mark
740 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 nfsiod
747 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 crypto
781 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 kworker/u:2
830 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
833 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.000 0.000 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software. Not about Gentoo so it fits better here.
Since you're using top, I'd do the following:- hit 'x' to highlight the sort column.
- Hit '<' until the VIRT column is highlighted.
- Hit 'i' (perhaps twice) to ensure that you're showing idle processes.
My guess is that, once you're looking at the right thing, you'll find out what's using the memory. Probably there's nothing to fix. 
- John
P.S.: You're code listing is a mess. Appreciate it if you'd delete all those trailing spaces.
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aCOSwt
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| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:48 am Post subject: Re: Massive memory usage when running just the console |
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| treeman1111 wrote: | | Hey, I am rather amazed with this, after recently installing Funtoo, I set up X and ran conky. It showed that 6 GB's of my RAM were being used....by nothing. What is causing this, and how do I fix it? |
Top only details what the tasks are requiring.
There are many things on a system which consume ram but are not tasks.
Starting with the kernel, drivers, ramdisks...
I'd bet on a ramdisk or something of the kind (tmpfs/shm...)
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