Re: Memory Usage

[Tomáš Čech]

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

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