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