[plug] memory question

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

oops, forgot to mention... 80 megs in cache...


On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:38:13AM -0400, indy at the-tech.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> hey everyone,
> 
> I guess this is a mini-survey since there are folks
> out there using various distros...
> 
> 
> How much memory does your desktop machine use
> in this default state?
> 
> One xterm, local
> One Xterm, ssh to another machine
> Gnome or KDE running (whichever you normally use)
> 
> 
> obviously most of us run various other things in the background
> 
> e.g. cups, smb, sshd
> 
> so if they are going when you measure it's worth mentioning...
> 
> simple measure i.e. cat /proc/meminfo
> 
> My experimental Gnome setup is running those basic
> desktop functions plus cups, smb, sshd
> and seems to use roughly 185 Meg.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is to be expected, or if there is
> something wrong I'm not noticing...
> I don't have another machine to really compare with..
> 
> apache is running 2 processes, roughly 3 megs each..
> cups, smb, shhd are all running
> 
> I guess I have the feeling it's all a bit much for idling...
> 
> figures for comparison most welcome
> 
> -- 
> Indranath Neogy
> <indy at the-tech.mit.edu>

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Indranath Neogy
<indy at the-tech.mit.edu>