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#1 2009-03-10 19:35:17

DreamAxe
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[SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

Before I begin, let me say that this is NOT a troll post. I have a real problem, especially considering the low amount of ram my eee has.

This is a screenshot from htop in gnome right after boot (Arch in asus eee)

This is a screenshot from htop on Debian (on another of my PC's)

Why is there so much difference in memory consumption between the first and the second screenshot? 53MB of ram on low-mem systems is just too much of a difference... Can this be solved somehow? I can upload the output of ps if you think it will be of any help

Last edited by DreamAxe (2009-03-11 16:28:30)

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#2 2009-03-10 19:51:56

mrunion
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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

Why is nautilus running on the eee and not on the other machine? What if you stop nautilus on the eee?


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#3 2009-03-10 20:08:01

DreamAxe
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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

I don't know... It autostarts with gnome for no reason... If I kill it, it restarts on it's own

Edit: The same nautilus proccess (nautilus --no-desktop --browser) runs in a friend who has Arch too. Maybe it's something related to the gnome package in Arch?

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#4 2009-03-10 20:44:17

Preycon
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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

What video card you use in your 'other pc' with Debian?

I think is the ram taken from the Intel Driver, i have the same 'problem'. In my desktop PC with Intel 945G chipset gnome takes around 150 MB ram; on another PC with ATI Xpress200 with ubuntu 'from ftp' it only takes 60MB!!!

Weird...

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#5 2009-03-10 20:58:35

DreamAxe
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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

That's it! I replaced the "intel" driver in xorg.conf with vesa just to test it and indeed in only takes up 74MB of Ram now big_smile

Thank you very much! I still need to use the intel driver (since vesa looks ugly and the performance suffers) but at least I now know it's not a gnome issue smile

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#6 2009-03-10 23:23:40

Ranguvar
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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

If you solved the problem, please mark the thread as [SOLVED] in the title by editing your first post smile

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#7 2009-03-10 23:26:54

lucke
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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

With packages from testing and UXA enabled, you should see a much lower memory usage; it isn't stable for some people.

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#8 2009-03-11 00:47:09

mrunion
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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome in Arch takes up too much RAM

And FWIW, I don't see "nautilus --no-desktop --browser" running in my Gnome setup. I have no idea what's going on there for you.


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