From: Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>
To: Terrence Martin <tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu>
Cc: newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Heavy load of graphics
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 05:55:18 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006045518.77044.qmail@web52908.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4162CB01.1040200@physics.ucsd.edu>
well i hope this will give u a idea about my sys
current status
thanks
[ankit@Ankit ankit]$ free
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 117912 116700 1212 0
1068 28472
-/+ buffers/cache: 87160 30752
Swap: 522072 41440 480632
[ankit@Ankit ankit]$ top
10:35:20 up 17 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03,
0.14, 0.16
60 processes: 57 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0
stopped
CPU states: 1.3% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice
0.0% iowait 98.6% idle
Mem: 117912k av, 116000k used, 1912k free,
0k shrd, 1100k buff
64652k actv, 0k in_d,
1084k in_c
Swap: 522072k av, 43448k used, 478624k free
28232k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM
TIME CPU COMMAND
3587 root 15 0 140M 6132 1056 R 0.8 5.2
0:22 0 X
3783 ankit 15 0 1052 1052 852 R 0.4 0.8
0:00 0 top
1 root 15 0 88 60 40 S 0.0 0.0
0:03 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
9 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kscand/DMA
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kscand/Normal
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kscand/HighMem
10 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 kupdated
11 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 mdrecoveryd
110 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 khubd
3169 root 15 0 172 120 100 S 0.0 0.1
0:00 0 syslogd
3173 root 15 0 52 4 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 klogd
3191 rpc 15 0 76 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 portmap
3210 rpcuser 25 0 80 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 rpc.statd
3277 root 24 0 52 4 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 apmd
3315 root 25 0 244 4 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00 0 sshd
--- Terrence Martin <tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Ankit Jain wrote:
>
> >hi
> >
> >well i am using linux 9.0 kernel 2.4 ver. 128 Mb
> RAM
> >
> >i have seen not only on this sytem but the other
> one
> >having 512 Mb RAM the most of the memory is lost or
> >taken by graphics or xserver. on my system around
> 90%
> >is occupied by the xsever and on the sys with 512
> Mb
> >RAM around 70% is occupied. how to reduce this
> load. i
> >oculd not get any article or stuff relate to this .
> if
> >we can do something in kernel or in some way reduce
> >this load while working in GUI envt
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >Ankit
> >
>
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> Can you post the following
>
> The output of the free command
>
> # free
>
> As well as the top 10 or so processes copied from
> top?
>
> Run top
> # top
>
> Then hit M (capital M) to sort by memory,
>
> Then past the results to the email.. It is a lot
> easier to know what is
> going on if everyone can see the actual memory
> information.
>
> For example
>
> $ free
> total used free shared
> buffers cached
> Mem: 1550128 1515028 35100 0
> 160944 801932
> -/+ buffers/cache: 552152 997976
> Swap: 2449904 19928 2429976
>
> Output of top, sorted by memory.
>
> 19725 tmartin 15 0 145M 145M 26196 S 2.7
> 9.5 20:17 0
> mozilla-bin
> 9925 root 15 0 135M 66M 8472 S 3.5
> 4.3 270:54 0 X
> 17665 tmartin 15 0 20912 20M 16488 S 0.0
> 1.3 0:00 0 kdeinit
> 17632 tmartin 15 0 17260 16M 14352 S 0.1
> 1.1 2:40 0 kdeinit
> 17659 tmartin 15 0 15332 14M 12684 S 0.0
> 0.9 0:07 0 kdeinit
> 17657 tmartin 15 0 14916 14M 12564 S 0.0
> 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit
> 23837 tmartin 15 0 14860 14M 12676 S 0.0
> 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit
> 19561 tmartin 15 0 14792 14M 12584 S 0.0
> 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit
> 19638 tmartin 15 0 14652 14M 12560 S 0.0
> 0.9 0:00 0 kdeinit
> 17630 tmartin 15 0 14568 14M 12748 S 0.0
> 0.9 0:02 0 kdeinit
>
>
> In my case I am in good shape. I am not using much
> swap, X is using
> 133MB of RAM but only 66MB are actually resident.
> That is there is only
> 66MB in physical memory, even though the memory size
> is 135MB. Mozilla
> on the other hand has asked for 145MB of RAM and it
> is using all of it.
>
> One way to reduce the Xwindows RAM footprint a bit
> is to run a much
> smaller window manager. For example instead of the
> heavier Gnome or KDE
> run XFCE.
>
> The current version of Fedora Redhat supports this I
> believe.
>
> Terrence
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 5:01 Heavy load of graphics Ankit Jain
2004-10-05 5:01 ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-05 5:45 ` Jeff Woods
2004-10-05 6:34 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-05 9:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-05 10:04 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-06 6:35 ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-06 21:02 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-07 12:48 ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-07 22:00 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-07 22:04 ` chuck gelm
2004-10-08 5:27 ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-08 14:37 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-05 11:09 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-10-05 12:26 ` chuck gelm
2004-10-05 16:25 ` Terrence Martin
2004-10-06 4:55 ` Ankit Jain [this message]
2004-10-07 1:50 ` chuck gelm
2004-10-07 2:07 ` Peter
2004-10-07 5:48 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-07 6:25 ` Owen Ford
2004-10-07 12:14 ` Ankit Jain
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