From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Memory Usage Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:51:24 +0000 Message-ID: <20170222195123.arj5tacfjxbkearn@wasp> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgcuk-0007Na-AR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:49:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgcuf-0001CO-HT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:49:26 -0500 Received: from latitanza.investici.org ([2001:888:2000:56::19]:36077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgcuf-0001BJ-8Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:49:21 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Rodger Fox Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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'm watching a video, write in an IRC client, and run some other background applications and I'm at 3.5 GiB RAM. > 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 >