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HiddenStalker

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Registered: 2015-05-11

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Mate ate my Ram

i heard that mate use 350MB of Ram , but for me it's using 800mb of ram

there is some screenshots :

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/201 … -perf1.png

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/201 … -perf2.png

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/201 … -perf3.png

i don't understand where is the problem , is it a bug ? can i solve it ?

thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Mate ate my Ram

Post the output of 'free -h'. Text, not picture.

HiddenStalker

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Registered: 2015-05-11

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Re: Mate ate my Ram

ok

                    total       utilisé      libre     partagé tamp/cache   disponible
Mem:           2,9G        689M        813M         21M        1,5G        2,1G
Partition d'échange:          0B          0B          0B

Last edited by HiddenStalker (2015-05-11 11:57:33)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Mate ate my Ram

LANG=en_GB.utf8 free -m

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HiddenStalker

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Re: Mate ate my Ram

LANG=en_GB.utf8 free -m

                    total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3012         688         612          21        1711        2115
Swap:             0           0           0

dice

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Registered: 2014-02-10

Posts: 413

Re: Mate ate my Ram

Obviously, the processes on your system are using 688MByte. This is not only mate but also the other running programs. Therefore it is impossible that mate is using 800MB (because only 688 are blocked).
Looks perfectly fine to me

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Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

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Re: Mate ate my Ram

Yeah I don't think there's any bug here. It's best to just ignore those articles where they say desktop x should use y ram. It's completely meaningless as everybody will have different processes running and nobody is going to rigidly stick to the stock version of their distro. Your usage figure for mate components (like marco using 45 mb or mate-panel using just under 30) look entirely normal.

blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 781

Re: Mate ate my Ram

Even the choice between nouveau or the blob from NVIDIA can make a difference of 100 MB or more in terms of RAM usage.

On my laptop with Mate and basically no extra stuff in autostart (like Dropbox, Guake, extra docks etc.)

318 MB used after bootup with nvidia.
161 MB used after bootup with nouveau.

Last edited by blackout23 (2015-05-11 17:25:14)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Mate ate my Ram

Even the choice between nouveau or the blob from NVIDIA can make a difference of 100 MB or more in terms of RAM usage.

On my laptop with Mate and basically no extra stuff in autostart (like Dropbox, Guake, extra docks etc.)

318 MB used after bootup with nvidia.
161 MB used after bootup with nouveau.

Do you mean something like https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1268515 ?

blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: Mate ate my Ram

Even the choice between nouveau or the blob from NVIDIA can make a difference of 100 MB or more in terms of RAM usage.

On my laptop with Mate and basically no extra stuff in autostart (like Dropbox, Guake, extra docks etc.)

318 MB used after bootup with nvidia.
161 MB used after bootup with nouveau.

Do you mean something like https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1268515 ?

Thanks, but isn't gl/egl support in cairo something I should want? The RAM requirements aren't that big of a problem.

I just tried out MATE built on GTK3 from [community-staging]. Looks like RAM usage (348) is basically the same as with GTK2 (333) and pluma & Co start just as fast.

Last edited by blackout23 (2015-05-12 23:11:49)