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Hello everyone
I'm pretty new in the wonderful world of ArchLinux. The installation was quite easy, thanks to the beginners guide and the wiki.
My laptop is a :
AMD Athlon Turion 64 1800 Mhz
ATI radeon xpress 200M
1024Mo RAM
So my system is currently like this :
Gnome + compiz-fusion
My ati is running with fglrx
Everything works fine except a "bizarre" thing with my memory.
When I start my computer :
top - 15:15:22 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.40, 0.16
Tasks: 104 total, 1 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.6%us, 6.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 85.4%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 903920k total, 412252k used, 491668k free, 15900k buffers
Swap: 1164672k total, 0k used, 1164672k free, 148144k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3696 rydgel 20 0 10460 4472 3504 S 5.6 0.5 0:05.40 mpd
3697 rydgel 20 0 10324 3656 2728 S 3.3 0.4 0:03.44 mpd
3865 root 20 0 275m 86m 21m S 2.7 9.8 0:06.55 Xorg
4097 rydgel 20 0 38740 14m 10m S 1.3 1.7 0:00.43 gnome-terminal
4092 rydgel 20 0 19460 3956 3272 S 1.0 0.4 0:00.19 conky
28 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 ata/0
3891 rydgel 20 0 5932 4412 1812 S 0.3 0.5 0:00.99 gconfd-2
3954 rydgel 20 0 84160 21m 14m S 0.3 2.4 0:00.77 nautilus
3966 rydgel 20 0 54932 13m 9.8m S 0.3 1.5 0:00.59 nm-applet
4072 rydgel 20 0 18144 8368 6732 S 0.3 0.9 0:00.15 emerald
1 root 20 0 1664 564 496 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.70 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
And after a few minutes :
top - 16:47:47 up 59 min, 1 user, load average: 0.67, 1.58, 1.96
Tasks: 108 total, 2 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.7%us, 32.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 53.3%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 903920k total, 893568k used, 10352k free, 85128k buffers
Swap: 1164672k total, 0k used, 1164672k free, 232032k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3862 root 20 0 314m 129m 32m S 19.6 14.7 7:53.44 Xorg
4183 rydgel 20 0 10456 4500 3508 S 14.3 0.5 5:07.84 mpd
4098 rydgel 20 0 242m 100m 27m R 14.0 11.4 9:35.00 firefox
4184 rydgel 20 0 10524 3996 2736 S 1.7 0.4 1:00.75 mpd
4061 rydgel 20 0 18124 13m 4616 S 0.3 1.5 0:23.53 compiz
4082 rydgel 20 0 20484 3988 3272 S 0.3 0.4 0:07.09 conky
1 root 20 0 1664 560 496 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.75 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kblockd/0
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kseriod
So you can see that my free mem decreases dramaticly until it's 0 then .. FREEZE (about 8 s ) and after that 150Mb ~ free mem.
My memory grows when I do things like scrolling in firefox, watching video ..
And with my others distros I never saw something like that in the same configuration.
Maybe someone can help me
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I've got similar problem. After 5-10 minutes of system uptime almost all my 900Mb of memory are used. Regardles of what DE I use (be it KDEmod3, KDEmod4, Gnome, XFCE, E17) - after 10 minutes of system works I have only 10-20 Mb free.
P.S. I do not use 3D graphical desktops.
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