From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rodger Fox Subject: Re: Memory Usage Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:28:41 -0800 Message-ID: <194e750715dada0672b63a15b2cfdf2f@openmailbox.org> References: <20170222195123.arj5tacfjxbkearn@wasp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgdWz-0005lR-B2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:28:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgdWw-00031r-6e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:28:57 -0500 Received: from lb1.openmailbox.org ([5.79.108.160]:59607 helo=mail.openmailbox.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgdWv-000312-Tq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:28:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170222195123.arj5tacfjxbkearn@wasp> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 2017-02-22 11:51 am, ng0 wrote: > On 17-02-22 11:37:11, Rodger Fox wrote: >> What is the typical memory usage of a GuixSD system? > > There's no such thing as a typical system. It depends on what you run, > 300 open browser tabs will lead to more RAM used for example. I understand. I didn't mean to leave that as the whole of my question. I elaborated more on my situation. I have stopped Xorg, networking, and the guix daemon. I was still at over 5GiB. > I'm watching a video, write in an IRC client, and run some other > background applications and I'm at 3.5 GiB RAM. So that seems to confirm my suspicion that something is wrong with my system. I am way over that mark with basically nothing running. As well, I checked another system I have that runs Arch Linux and I found that with full gnome-desktop and several extra services running, it is around 4GiB. I was wondering if it was just something strange about the Guix binaries. Anyway, I'm just looking for ideas. I know it's a pretty vague problem. It just makes me wonder if my system is compromised somehow. I think I will try a fresh install to see if it changes anything. >> I can't seem to get mine below 5GiB, according to top. >> This is when I stop Xorg and most system services, including >> networking and >> such, and just log in to a plain terminal with nothing but top >> running. Is >> this normal? >> The numbers listed per process in top don't even add up to that, but >> it >> reports the total being high. Also, icecat uses a 1000m and >> gnome-terminal >> uses 500m. >> This seems wrong to me, but I'm not sure. In my session right now it >> is >> reporting over 14GiB of memory use. I don't know why it should be so >> high. >> >> -Rodger >>