Re: Memory Usage

[Rodger Fox]

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.

> > I can't seem to get mine below 5GiB, according to top.
> > This is when I stop Xorg and most system services, including 
> > networking and
> > such, and just log in to a plain terminal with nothing but top 
> > running. Is
> > this normal?
> > The numbers listed per process in top don't even add up to that, but 
> > it
> > reports the total being high. Also, icecat uses a 1000m and 
> > gnome-terminal
> > uses 500m.
> > This seems wrong to me, but I'm not sure. In my session right now it 
> > is
> > reporting over 14GiB of memory use. I don't know why it should be so 
> > high.
> >
> > -Rodger