[CLUE-Tech] kdeinit eating memory?

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:04:12 -0600
David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I'm confused.  On my system top reports  RSS < SHARE on almost every
process.  Maybe this is because I'm using kernel 2.6.0?

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