[CLUE-Tech] kdeinit eating memory?

[David Anselmi]

Jeff Cann wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> rhat 9.0 install - running X from gdm into KDE 3.1.  Once logged in, I run top 
> and see that kdeinit processes have allocated a lot of memory (over 100 MB).
> 
> Anyone else see this?  Ideas on whacking some of them?
> 
> Jeff
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
>  5200 jccann    15   0 17180  16M 13904 S     0.3  3.3   0:01   0 kmail
>  5128 jccann    15   0 15240  14M 12244 S     0.0  2.9   0:00   0 kdeinit
>  5126 jccann    15   0 14744  14M 12072 S     0.0  2.8   0:00   0 kdeinit

Looks like size and share are reported in KB.  From:

http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/teams/docs/papers/whitepapers/MemoryUsage/MemoryUsage.ps

"So, the actual memory used uniquely by an application is RSS - SHARE."

Looks like most of the memory used by kdeinit is shared by all the 
processes.  You're really using 20MB or less, not 100MB.  Probably 
nothing to worry about.

Dave