Why is ArchLinux consuming so much RAM?

I really don't know where to start with this thread. Hoping a few of you veterans will be able to help pinpoint my memory consumption by ArchLinux. I have read lots of places where ArchLinux runs with a very small memory footprint, but that hasn't been my experience, which is tragic becuase I really like ArchLinux the most of all the distros I've tried.
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$ps -aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 1592 536 ? Ss Sep03 0:00 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Sep03 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [events/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [khelper]
root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kacpid]
root 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 113 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kseriod]
root 135 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep03 0:00 [pdflush]
root 136 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep03 0:00 [pdflush]
root 137 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 138 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [aio/0]
root 273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:08 [ata/0]
root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 278 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 280 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:18 [scsi_eh_1]
root 614 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 617 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [khubd]
root 1186 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kjournald]
root 1231 0.0 0.0 1772 636 ? S<s Sep03 0:01 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 1781 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kgameportd]
root 3980 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 4368 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 4369 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [usb-storage]
root 4993 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kjournald]
root 4994 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kjournald]
root 4995 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Sep03 0:00 [kjournald]
root 5151 0.0 0.1 2220 792 ? Ss Sep03 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
root 5165 0.0 0.0 1740 504 ? Ss Sep03 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -t 30 -h TuxTixi eth
root 5177 0.0 0.0 1620 544 ? S Sep03 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond
root 5189 0.0 0.1 14404 1252 ? Ss Sep03 0:00 ./hpiod
root 5193 0.0 0.6 11608 4996 ? S Sep03 0:00 python ./hpssd.py
root 5202 0.0 0.3 5316 2364 ? Ss Sep03 0:08 /usr/sbin/cupsd
dbus 5216 0.0 0.1 2232 1000 ? Ss Sep03 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
hal 5219 0.0 0.4 4936 3144 ? Ss Sep03 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root 5220 0.0 0.1 3136 1152 ? S Sep03 0:00 hald-runner
hal 5227 0.0 0.1 2000 880 ? S Sep03 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on
hal 5228 0.0 0.1 2000 876 ? S Sep03 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on
hal 5229 0.0 0.1 1996 872 ? S Sep03 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on
hal 5232 0.0 0.1 1996 868 ? S Sep03 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acp
root 5246 0.0 0.1 3188 1088 ? S Sep03 0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/
root 5248 0.0 0.1 3184 1084 ? S Sep03 0:08 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/
root 5250 0.0 0.1 3184 1088 ? S Sep03 0:08 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/
root 5253 0.0 0.1 2340 1136 tty1 Ss Sep03 0:00 /bin/login --
root 5254 0.0 0.0 1588 496 tty2 Ss+ Sep03 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/2 linux
root 5255 0.0 0.0 1588 492 tty3 Ss+ Sep03 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/3 linux
root 5256 0.0 0.0 1592 500 tty4 Ss+ Sep03 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/4 linux
root 5257 0.0 0.0 1592 500 tty5 Ss+ Sep03 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/5 linux
root 5258 0.0 0.0 1588 496 tty6 Ss+ Sep03 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/6 linux
tom 5269 0.0 0.2 4532 1736 tty1 S Sep03 0:00 -bash
tom 5273 0.0 0.1 4484 1396 tty1 S+ Sep03 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
tom 5289 0.0 0.0 2572 720 tty1 S+ Sep03 0:00 xinit /home/tom/.xinitrc -- -auth
root 5290 4.3 3.0 28088 23512 tty7 S<s+ Sep03 74:03 X :0 -auth /home/tom/.serverauth.
tom 5308 0.0 0.1 4220 1376 tty1 S Sep03 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
tom 5311 0.0 0.0 4480 760 tty1 S Sep03 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
tom 5313 0.0 0.3 4484 2584 tty1 S Sep03 0:00 xscreensaver -no-splash
tom 5318 0.0 0.0 2708 632 tty1 S Sep03 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax
tom 5319 0.0 0.1 2236 1020 ? Ss Sep03 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --pri
tom 5321 0.0 1.6 26060 13048 tty1 S Sep03 0:01 /usr/bin/xfce4-session
tom 5325 0.0 1.3 29588 10324 ? Ss Sep03 0:01 xfce-mcs-manager
tom 5326 0.0 0.8 14264 6832 tty1 S Sep03 0:01 xfwm4 --sm-client-id 11c0a8126400
tom 5327 0.0 2.1 62196 16964 tty1 S Sep03 0:01 Thunar --sm-client-id 11c0a812640
tom 5328 0.0 2.3 41252 18336 tty1 S Sep03 0:17 xfdesktop --sm-client-id 11c0a812
tom 5330 0.0 1.8 28088 14436 tty1 S Sep03 0:02 xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 11c0a8
tom 5332 0.0 3.7 59400 28948 ? Ssl Sep03 0:04 mono /usr/lib/tomboy/Tomboy.exe
tom 5335 0.0 0.7 12988 5732 tty1 S Sep03 0:08 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfce4/panel-plugin
tom 5336 0.0 1.7 28264 13956 tty1 S Sep03 0:01 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfce4/panel-plugin
tom 5337 0.0 1.6 26544 13140 tty1 S Sep03 0:13 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfce4/panel-plugin
tom 5339 0.0 0.2 5048 2216 ? S Sep03 0:00 /usr/lib/GConf/gconfd-2 21
tom 7011 0.0 2.3 32168 18612 ? Ss 17:35 0:01 Terminal
tom 7012 0.0 0.0 2420 652 ? S 17:35 0:00 gnome-pty-helper
tom 7013 0.0 0.2 4532 1668 pts/0 Ss 17:35 0:00 bash
tom 7183 0.0 0.1 4228 1428 ? S 21:04 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox
tom 7187 0.0 0.1 4224 1432 ? S 21:04 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-
tom 7192 5.3 7.8 158728 61260 ? Sl 21:04 1:21 /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/
root 7205 0.0 0.1 3600 924 pts/0 S 21:04 0:00 su
root 7206 0.0 0.2 4264 1672 pts/0 S 21:04 0:00 bash
root 7211 0.0 0.5 10708 4024 pts/0 S+ 21:07 0:00 vi /etc/rc.conf
tom 7258 0.0 0.2 4532 1668 pts/1 Ss 21:28 0:00 bash
tom 7260 0.0 0.1 3552 996 pts/1 R+ 21:29 0:00 ps -aux
I'm astounded that xfce-related items would consume so much memory. Also, Tomboy and Firefox really eat up memory in a hurry. Thunar, too. Is this normal? Doesn't seem like it should be...
Oh, fyi, the daemons loaded at startup are:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa hplip cups hal)
Any help would be appreciated here. I can send over any specifics about my system or outputs of a command as needed for remote troubleshooting. Thanks!
Last edited by wrycatcher (2007-09-05 05:01:07)

wrycatcher wrote:I don't have anything that usual installed, I don't think. If I go from a fresh boot up, my experience is that I end up using about 400MB out of the 768 MB total physical memory (eventually my system will slow to a crawl with about 95% of RAM used).
If it never exceeds 95% , I don't see why there should be any slow downs.
Does it swap ? Thats much more important to check than the memory usage (even if its obviously linked).
If a lot of swap is used, then it's very bad indeed, and you're left with the two obvious choices :
1) get more memory
2) use less memory hungry apps
Recently, I set up Ubuntu (which is more bloated than Arch, with a ton of unneeded crap by default) on a box with 256 MB.
Just booting into an empty gnome session filled up all ram. Then trying to start OpenOffice made the system swap badly,
and it was very slow.
I upgraded it to 512 mb, and everything is fine now.
So I find it strange that 768 mb can't handle arch + xfce.

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[i empty my trash like 30mins ago] - a coreaudiod hang?

Why this OS comsumes too much ram?

I don't use any solfware then Ram is loss 2.85gb/4gb
The compay is fixing soon...

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It's not a bug. OS X Mavericks has got a different way of managing RAM usage, so you shouldn't have any performance problem even with few free memory. See Compressed Memory > http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/

Labview 2010 vi using too much RAM and causing Crashes

hello everyone,
I was given a LV 2010 vi to integrate with another functionality.This Vi is used for a long time on XP and Windows 7 platform having various RAM size.it still runs fine on those PCs. This Vi has functionality that it waits for user to press start button that it reads data and plots.however i am not giving start command and it starts consuming too much RAM and resulting system Crash.
System Config: I have Core i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz with 2 GB RAM and windows 7 .
Plz show some methods to prevent them and why it is happening.?
Note:1) i also checked my ram through windows test and it has no error.
2) windows shows me some low disk error sometimes.
plz help me out here i am stuck here for week.
thanks & regards

Post your VI if you are allowed, we cannot help you without that info...
If you are a beginner in LabVIEW, it will not take 1 day to gain some level. LabVIEW is a full featured programming language, it is very easy to program it wrong. I suggest you to start learn it using the online resources. You have an active LabVIEW licence? If so, you can access the "self-paced online training" via menu point "MyNI", see top of this website just next to your name (you need to connect your account to your licence in order to use the online training). Another option could be to pay for a virtual classroom course, get more info here: http://sine.ni.com/tacs/app/overview/p/ap/of/lang/en/pg/1/sn/n5nline,n24:12725/id/1582/ I did this a few years ago (Core 1 and 2.) and the tutor from NI was very professional, and it was also comfortable since you attend the class via internet from yoour home or workplace.

Too much RAM consumption in Photoshop CC 2014.

Hi people,
Since the update to Photoshop CC 2014 I'm having serious problems with the amount of RAM used by Photoshop.
When opening a file (only) 245 MB big, Photoshop uses around 3.5 GB of RAM. As a result my PC is extremely slow.
This was never the case in previous versions. Files made in previous versions are now hard to work on in the CC 2014 version.
Some bigger files are now useless. It takes forever to open them and impossible to work on because of this RAM issue.
I can not open other apps or even browsers at the same time anymore, because Photoshop consumes too much RAM.
Is it normal Photoshop uses 3.5 GB RAM while the file is that small?
When comparing with other Adobe (CC 2014) software only Photoshop uses that amount of RAM.
If you look here http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html#Photoshop CC 2014 system requirements and language versions
you can see the minimum requirements of RAM:
Photoshop CS5:            1GB
Photoshop CS6:            1GB
Photoshop CC:             1GB
Photoshop CC 2014:     2GB (8 GB recommended)
OK, new versions need more RAM, I understand. But in my case it seems like 6 GB is not enough.
And I have the feeling even 8 GB won't be enough too.
Can someone please tell me if there's a problem with Photoshop CC 2014, will this be solved?
Or is this normal behaviour, and should I buy more RAM?
Buying more RAM is of course the easiest answer to solve this.
But don't you think the jump from 1 GB to (minimum) 8 GB RAM is very big?
And like I said, I don't think 8 GB will cover it too. Then how much will be enough?
Thnx in advance!
I have:
OS:                                Windows 7 Pro
Processor:                      Intel Xeon CPU W3550 @ 3.07 GHz 3.06 GHz
System Type:                 64 Bit PC
RAM:                             6 GB RAM
Available Disk Space:     283 GB
Kind regards,
Lester.

Ok, thnx for the reply!
I bought more RAM.

Hi Since updating to ios 7.04 i have noticed the phone consumes so much more power. I have to charge the phone twice sometimes 3 times a day. WHY?

Hi Since updating to ios 7.04 i have noticed the phone consumes so much more power. I have to charge the phone twice sometimes 3 times a day. WHY?

Hi,
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Why is my iMac (2.8.GHz Intel Core i7 w/ 4GBs RAM) using so much RAM?

Right now I have only Firefox open with 4 tabs. Firefox only has 1 extension (1Password). No other application open or running (that I know of). My dock has 17 icons (including basics like trash, finder, launch, etc). As mentioned I have a:
2.8 GHz
Intel Core i7
4 GBs RAM
21.5 Inch
Running on 10.7.3 (Lion)
My RAM situation is this:
1.83 GB Free
78 MB Inactive
1.40 GB Active
697 MB Wired
2.17 GB Used
4.0 GB Total
Image of my Activity Monitor (with user removed) here:
columns as follows: PID, Process Name, % CPU, Threads, Real Mem, Kind
I'm trying to figure out why my iMac is using so much RAM when I only have Firefox open? are any of these activities unnecessary and if so how might I turn them off and so they don't start automatically when I initially turn on the computer? This imac is two weeks old and so I haven't done a whole lot of customization yet. Please help if you can. Really appreciate it. Trying to optimize this baby. Thank you!!

Here's mine: I have 16 Safari tabs open, some with Flash junk, and 13 apps "open" according to the Dock indicator:
By the way the number of icons in your Dock has essentially no effect on memory. Only running apps - the ones with the little dot indicator - might be occupying memory. Even that is somewhat of an oversimplification, since "active" apps may or may not have any active processes associated with them. It's all a function of how Lion manages its memory resources, and that is a whole new world to most of us.
With Lion, Apple is seeking to eliminate the system effects of whether an app is even open or not. Just another trivial detail the average user ought not to be concerned with, in their opinion.
If you want a cursory introduction to that fascinating subject, Google the Ars Technica Lion review that was written a few months ago. It may ease your concerns about memory management. If you are an experienced computer user, it will rock your world.

How much ram does your lightroom consume ?

Hi
how much ram does your lightroom consume ?
to me 160mb but I have seen it up over 230mb while doing work
does abode plain to increase the cache like Bibble , Phase one or SILKYPIX Developer to be more light??

Currently sitting at about 1.8GB (real) 2.5GB (virtual), but then it's working rather than idle. At idle it drops to around 15MB (real) and 270MB (virtual).

Why So Much RAM Going to "File Cache"

Hi,
I seemed to be maxing out my RAM in my 5,1 Mac Pro when I had Adobe Lightroom, PhotoShop, and DxO's OpticsPro 10 open, which are the 3 apps I use in tandem quite a bit. So, I bought 8 GB's more RAM (not a great deal but as much as I can afford at the moment), popped it in on Saturday, and was happy to see that I seemed to have plenty of RAM when the 3 apps were open. By the end of yesterday, however, almost all of my RAM was being chewed up. I opened Activity Monitor this morning and saw that almost 12 GB is being used up by "File Cache". Is this normal? Right now - after installing the 8GB's and after 1.5 days almost being back to where I was before I bought the additional memory, it feels like I'm in a Memory Black Hole. Any insight?
Thanks,
Robert

Yes. OS X uses the file cache to store frequently used code and files in order to make the computer run a little bit faster instead of spending a lot of time loading and unloading data from disk. It improves memory management. It's a good thing.
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory & determine how much RAM is used
OS X Mavericks- About Activity Monitor
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.
Adding RAM only makes it possible to run more programs concurrently. It doesn't speed up the computer nor make games run faster. What it can do is prevent the system from having to use disk-based VM when it runs out of RAM because you are trying to run too many applications concurrently or using applications that are extremely RAM dependent. It will improve the performance of applications that run mostly in RAM or when loading programs.

How much RAM should be in use while not running anything?

Just for the heck of it, I checked the Activity Monitor with nothing else open to see how much RAM was being used. Much to my surprise, nearly 900MB of my 2GB was being used with literally every application closed except for Activity Monitor. This can't be normal...

My Macbook Pro is also using about 1.3GB RAM with virtually everything shut down (mail, safari, ical, itunes, etc). Yet, my husbands uses only about 400-500MB with the nearly identical applications left running.
I have 4GB, he has 2GB.
We compared the running applications one-by-one, and mine uses nearly double his for the exact same application.
Does a laptop use more memory if it has more memory to use?
This really bothers me. There does not seem to be any reason for mine to be consuming more RAM when running the same small applications as his does yet I can't figure out why?
Ahhhhh!

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