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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

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How much memory is used when you logged into console?

I.e. without X running. I've got around 350M used (free -m), which seems a lot!

tom5760

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From: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Registered: 2006-02-05

Posts: 283

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Re: How much memory is used when you logged into console?

Some of it might be cached, which is fine.  You could try running 'top' and hitting 'M' to sort by what is using the most memory, and see what is there.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: How much memory is used when you logged into console?

On all my machines I've found it to be around 7% of total memory. But thats with vary little services running and no session manager running ie denyhosts, ssh, ntp, cups, shorewall. As pointed out above much of it can be cached which is no reason to be concerned. It basically means the data is there in case its needed but will be overwritten is need be. A good program to see which processes are eating up your memory is htop.

Davigetto

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Registered: 2007-05-10

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Re: How much memory is used when you logged into console?

When I log into gnome, i have a 30% of 1 GB used, half for programs, half for cache. So take it as normal

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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

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Re: How much memory is used when you logged into console?

I thought it is supposed to be mean and lean? If console mode only is using 300-400 on startup, how is it going to be usable for a 512M machine, never mention the 256M machines? I have 1G and the machine is a bit struggling with firefox + virtualbox running at the same time. Might need to upgrade to 2G.

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

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Re: How much memory is used when you logged into console?

I have 512. After kde starts I am only using about 100.

Rokixz

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From: Šiauliai, Lithuania

Registered: 2007-04-21

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Re: How much memory is used when you logged into console?

I'm too

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Shadin

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Registered: 2007-07-22

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Re: How much memory is used when you logged into console?

I thought it is supposed to be mean and lean? If console mode only is using 300-400 on startup, how is it going to be usable for a 512M machine, never mention the 256M machines? I have 1G and the machine is a bit struggling with firefox + virtualbox running at the same time. Might need to upgrade to 2G.

One of my server machines at home is a Dell Poweredge 1300 that has dual Pentium III 450MHz processors and 256MB PC-100 RAM.  Running at command line with Apache, PHP, MySQL, SSH, and a few other goodies it's still very fast and responsive.  I've never checked actual usage because the machine has never been slow at CLI.