From: "Tomáš Čech" <sleep_walker@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory Usage
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:10:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170223081051.pomou5qb4m6vofcb@crashnator.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <194e750715dada0672b63a15b2cfdf2f@openmailbox.org>
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:28:41PM -0800, Rodger Fox wrote:
>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.
This is rather high - are you sure that you don't count cache into
this?
What is in /proc/meminfo?
Best regards,
S_W
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-23 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-22 19:37 Memory Usage Rodger Fox
2017-02-22 19:51 ` ng0
2017-02-22 20:28 ` Rodger Fox
2017-02-23 8:10 ` Tomáš Čech [this message]
2017-02-22 20:29 ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-24 8:08 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-02-24 12:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
[not found] <mailman.54514.1487943211.22740.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2017-02-24 16:40 ` Rodger Fox
2017-04-27 7:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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