X is eating RAM

Hi. I've noticed that after some hours using KDE 4.5.1 the process X uses a lot of ram (now is on 400 MB).
I don't know exactly what information do you need to help me, so I will post the KDE's Monitor (ksysguard) detailed memory information about X. If you need anything else, please tell me.
Process 20722 - X
Summary
The process X (with pid 20722) is using approximately 411.1 MB of memory.
It is using 409.2 MB privately, and a further 3.9 MB that is, or could be, shared with other programs.
Dividing up the shared memory between all the processes sharing that memory we get a reduced shared memory usage of 1878.0 KB. Adding that to the private usage, we get the above mentioned total memory footprint of 411.1 MB.
Library Usage
The memory usage of a process is found by adding up the memory usage of each of its libraries, plus the process's own heap, stack and any other mappings.
Private
more
400520 KB [heap]
15328 KB /usr/lib/libnvidia-glcore.so.256.53
824 KB /usr/bin/Xorg
708 KB /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
620 KB /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.256.53
Shared
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3692 KB /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
164 KB /lib/libc-2.12.1.so
64 KB /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.18.4
36 KB /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.5
28 KB /lib/libm-2.12.1.so
Totals
Private 419060 KB (= 1780 KB clean + 417280 KB dirty)
Shared 4028 KB (= 4016 KB clean + 12 KB dirty)
Rss 423088 KB (= Private + Shared)
Pss 420938 KB (= Private + Shared/Number of Processes)
Swap 0 KB
Full Details
Information about the complete virtual space for the process is available, with sortable columns. An empty filename means that it is an anonymous mapping.
Both the MMU page size and the kernel page size are 4 KB.

Ok.
ps aux:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 1756 556 ? Ss 18:52 0:00 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [migration/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [migration/1]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [watchdog/1]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [events/0]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [events/1]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [cpuset]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [khelper]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [netns]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [async/mgr]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [pm]
root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [sync_supers]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [bdi-default]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kblockd/1]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kacpid]
root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kacpi_hotplug]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kseriod]
root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [khungtaskd]
root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 18:52 0:00 [ksmd]
root 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [aio/0]
root 28 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [aio/1]
root 29 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [crypto/0]
root 30 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [crypto/1]
root 466 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 475 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [ata_sff/0]
root 506 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [ata_sff/1]
root 545 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 552 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 562 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 568 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
root 640 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [jbd2/sda1-8]
root 641 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]
root 642 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]
root 665 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [flush-8:0]
root 676 0.0 0.0 2164 964 ? S<s 18:52 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 954 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 1001 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [khubd]
root 1055 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [scsi_eh_4]
root 1056 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [usb-storage]
root 1065 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [i915]
root 1067 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 18:52 0:00 [kslowd000]
root 1068 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 18:52 0:00 [kslowd001]
root 1070 2.9 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 1:33 [hd-audio0]
root 1193 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:52 0:00 [usbhid_resumer]
root 1361 0.0 0.0 5092 424 ? S 18:52 0:00 supervising syslog-ng
root 1362 0.0 0.1 5272 1724 ? Ss 18:52 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
root 1387 0.0 0.0 1804 596 ? Ss 18:52 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -S -l info
dbus 1402 0.0 0.1 2620 1308 ? Ss 18:52 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
hal 1410 0.0 0.3 14976 3172 ? Ssl 18:52 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root 1411 0.0 0.1 3520 1164 ? S 18:52 0:00 hald-runner
root 1443 0.0 0.0 3584 1000 ? S 18:52 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/even
root 1457 0.0 0.0 3584 992 ? S 18:52 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdc (every 2 sec)
root 1462 0.0 0.0 3584 996 ? S 18:52 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/fd0 because it is explici
hal 1464 0.0 0.0 3248 1008 ? S 18:52 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/e
root 1466 0.0 0.1 3584 1216 ? S 18:52 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
root 1475 0.0 0.0 3772 636 ? Ss 18:52 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm
root 1479 0.0 0.0 1756 560 tty1 Ss+ 18:52 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
root 1480 0.0 0.0 1756 568 tty2 Ss+ 18:52 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
root 1481 0.0 0.0 1756 560 tty3 Ss+ 18:52 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
root 1482 0.0 0.0 1756 564 tty4 Ss+ 18:52 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
root 1483 0.0 0.0 1756 564 tty5 Ss+ 18:52 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
root 1484 0.0 0.0 1756 568 tty6 Ss+ 18:52 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux
root 1485 8.2 33.7 359228 347180 tty7 Ss+ 18:52 4:21 /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-vsCcfb
root 1500 0.0 0.0 1948 544 ? Ss 18:53 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -t 30 -h arch-live eth0
root 1502 0.0 0.0 2184 916 ? S< 18:53 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root 1506 0.0 0.1 4116 1656 ? S 18:53 0:00 -:0
root 1514 0.0 0.0 3176 504 ? S 18:53 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 101e08cc1c3aaf54927f3a504a3b4f56 --bina
root 1515 0.0 0.0 2356 856 ? Ss 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --se
root 1544 0.0 0.2 18344 2448 ? Sl 18:53 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
arch 1616 0.0 0.1 4740 1452 ? Ss 18:53 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
arch 1645 0.0 0.0 4464 480 ? Ss 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry
arch 1648 0.0 0.0 3544 420 ? Ss 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
arch 1659 0.0 0.0 3176 500 ? S 18:53 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
arch 1660 0.0 0.1 2856 1648 ? Ss 18:53 0:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --se
root 1667 0.0 0.0 1600 56 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit +kcminit_startup
arch 1668 0.0 3.1 93304 32704 ? Ss 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...
arch 1669 0.0 2.6 96204 27580 ? S 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: klauncher [kdeinit] --fd=9
arch 1671 0.0 3.6 153128 37472 ? Sl 18:53 0:01 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]
arch 1678 0.0 3.2 130088 33180 ? S 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: kglobalaccel [kdeinit]
root 1686 0.0 0.0 2160 784 ? S< 18:53 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
arch 1688 0.0 0.0 1736 232 ? S 18:53 0:00 kwrapper4 ksmserver
arch 1689 0.0 3.2 139260 33212 ? Sl 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: ksmserver [kdeinit]
arch 1691 23.6 7.8 274128 80732 ? Rl 18:53 12:26 kwin -session 10f3deccde000127156781200000017050000_1284967326_3
root 1693 0.0 0.0 2796 732 ? Ss 18:53 0:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/disk -o rw,nosuid,nodev,uhe
root 1695 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:53 0:00 [jbd2/sda2-8]
root 1696 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:53 0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]
root 1697 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:53 0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]
arch 1702 1.8 4.1 160300 42236 ? SLl 18:53 0:59 /usr/bin/knotify4
arch 1706 0.0 1.1 75084 11960 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/kuiserver
arch 1711 0.0 0.3 36488 4044 ? Sl 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_control
arch 1713 0.0 0.6 136752 6504 ? Sl 18:53 0:00 akonadiserver
arch 1715 0.0 1.8 193724 18792 ? Sl 18:53 0:01 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/home/arch/.local/share/akonadi
arch 1750 0.0 1.5 78724 15720 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_contacts_resource --identifier akonadi_contacts
arch 1751 0.0 1.4 78288 15092 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_contacts_resource --identifier akonadi_contacts
arch 1752 0.0 1.5 80292 15828 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_ical_resource --identifier akonadi_ical_resourc
arch 1753 0.0 1.5 80292 15832 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_ical_resource --identifier akonadi_ical_resourc
arch 1754 0.0 1.5 78772 15764 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildir_resource --identifier akonadi_maildir_r
arch 1755 0.0 1.5 79168 16148 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent --identifier akonadi_maild
arch 1756 0.0 1.4 85996 15084 ? Sl 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder --identifier akonadi_nep
arch 1757 0.0 1.5 78644 15584 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_vcard_resource --identifier akonadi_vcard_resou
arch 1770 0.0 0.6 34140 6756 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver
arch 1773 0.0 3.1 129240 31988 ? S 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: kaccess [kdeinit]
arch 1792 0.0 0.7 32800 7300 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/kwrited
arch 1795 0.0 4.9 239732 50600 ? S 18:53 0:02 kdeinit4: krunner [kdeinit]
arch 1802 0.0 3.8 215960 39712 ? S 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: kmix [kdeinit] -session 10f3deccde00012715678170000001
arch 1804 0.3 2.0 92628 20912 ? Sl 18:53 0:10 /usr/bin/yakuake -session 10f3deccde000128458099300000017460017_
arch 1805 0.0 3.6 127944 37880 ? S 18:53 0:00 /usr/bin/colibri -session 10f3deccde000128466712900000017050014_
arch 1808 0.0 0.1 4928 1808 pts/1 Ss 18:53 0:00 /bin/bash
arch 1812 0.0 3.5 113820 36732 ? S 18:53 0:00 python /usr/bin/printer-applet
arch 1816 0.0 3.2 129576 33088 ? S 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: klipper [kdeinit]
arch 1817 0.0 2.7 95416 27772 ? S 18:53 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_http_cache_cleaner [kdeinit]
arch 1846 0.0 0.1 4928 1808 pts/2 Ss+ 18:56 0:00 /bin/bash
arch 2727 0.0 0.3 6472 3164 ? S 18:57 0:00 /usr/lib/telepathy/mission-control-5
arch 2731 0.0 0.3 32484 3184 ? SLl 18:57 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=
arch 2737 0.0 0.2 6576 2088 ? S 18:57 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
arch 2746 0.0 0.1 29996 1940 ? Ssl 18:57 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/arch/.gvfs
arch 3156 14.1 8.5 322720 87448 ? Sl 19:32 1:52 kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit] --nocrashhandler
arch 3160 0.0 0.0 2136 888 ? S 19:32 0:00 ksysguardd
arch 3184 0.0 2.5 94044 26560 ? S 19:40 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3185 0.0 2.5 94044 26560 ? S 19:40 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3186 0.0 2.5 94044 26560 ? S 19:40 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3187 0.0 2.5 94044 26560 ? S 19:40 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3199 0.0 2.5 94044 26536 ? S 19:42 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3200 0.0 2.5 94044 26536 ? S 19:42 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3201 0.0 2.5 94044 26536 ? S 19:42 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3202 0.0 2.5 94044 26536 ? S 19:42 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3206 2.8 4.1 268456 42528 ? Sl 19:42 0:05 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
arch 3207 0.0 0.2 67976 2892 ? S 19:42 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
arch 3209 0.0 1.1 71920 11712 ? S 19:42 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=zygote
arch 3225 0.0 1.3 115504 13416 ? Sl 19:42 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=extension --lang=es --force-fi
arch 3233 0.1 1.6 118764 17440 ? Sl 19:42 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=extension --lang=es --force-fi
arch 3240 0.3 2.4 123816 24776 ? Sl 19:42 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --lang=es --force-fie
arch 3251 4.0 6.2 252972 64236 ? Sl 19:43 0:07 /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption Preferencias del sistema -icon
arch 3264 4.3 5.3 413132 55176 ? Sl 19:44 0:02 /usr/bin/firefox
arch 3266 0.0 0.3 7064 3356 ? S 19:44 0:00 /usr/lib/GConf/gconfd-2
arch 3322 0.1 2.8 95596 29028 ? S 19:45 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_http [kdeinit] http local:/tmp/ksocket-arch/klaunc
arch 3327 0.0 0.1 4108 1036 pts/1 R+ 19:46 0:00 ps aux
free:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1027228 992928 34300 0 48760 219004
-/+ buffers/cache: 725164 302064
Swap: 0 0 0
I had to wait until my X process reached 300 MB or more. It starts on 3x MB.
Last edited by soaliar (2010-09-20 23:41:49)

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In Windows everything works ok, though I've had the occasional famous "freeze", where the drive tray won't close after being opened. Seems to be bad drivers causing that one, and I've learnt to get around it in most cases.
Burning DVD-R works as a charm, with quality 4x discs there are no problems burning in 8x.
The real annoyance right now occurs in hifi-mode; sometimes when playing an ordinary audio-cd the playback ends abruptly, and either "SEARCHING" or "NODISC" is shown in the LCD. This is the case with both original CD's as well as with CD-R copies, so it's not a matter of bad discs.
But as I stated above, I don't really know if it's the drive or the Megas fault, but I will have to find a cure before my girlfriend gets really upset about it
-M

How To Free Up Memory (RAM) N95(ninety-five)

Does anyone have a sugestion on how to free up some ram, apart from closing running aps?

Ngage and music store will only eat RAM you cannot say that to increase efficiency to memory management. Features are always here to eat RAM:d
Right now, I guess the demand paging application will DEFINITELY be a good solution to increase RAM. I hope existing N95-1 will get this.
Besides, my lil advice always clear the cache of the web browser and use a task manager that will monitor the currently running apps in background.

Pro 2.0 and CS4 not enough ram and fddshow.

I would be very happy if somebody might help me..
Exporting like above cause that movie is about 100x accelerated and remaining footage is whole black and blind, i mean 100minutes material is squeezed into 1 minute and remaining 99 minutes are black and no sound, but exporting with xvid or dxiv of 264 codec is fine.
Problem 4.
When exporting to microsoft avi 640x480 30 fps 2x44.1kHz pcm uncompressed it takes ages to export and problem is not harddrive.
Problem 3:
movies from youtube etc converted to avi are starting fddshow filter, one per each footage movies. It become unstable at about 30 fddshows started.
Movies from canon are read by adobe without probelm.
Problem 2:
When there is no k-lite in the system and i start premiere ram consumption goes from 0 to 1.8GB and software tells me: resources critical and when hittin 1.95GB i tells me not enough resources and disappears - this both apply to pro 2.0 and cs4 (difference is only that cs4 consumes ram by 2 processes not 1 like pro 2.0)
When there i k-lite in system and i start adobe, ram consumption goes from 0 to 950MB and adobe is stable and workable, the same cs4.
Problem 1:
There are almost no effect in timeline, just volume and some footages are under txt, nothing more
some photos bmp and jpegs
sometimes movies from youtube downloaded by youtube downloader and changed from mp4 into 640x480 30fps avi by the same program
footages from canon s2 and s5 mostly, 640x480 30fps motion jpeg in avi container, 2x44100 pcm
materials:
3 movie line + 3 sound lines
640x480 progressive 30fps 2x44100
setup:
adobe premiere pro 2.0 and cs4
t7200 + 4GB ram (visible 3.3) + win xp 32bit
Equipment:
Hello

Hello
My system is completly new:
- 2 weeks old winndows xp sp2
- comodo firewall (antivirus, defence, anti warm etc off)
- opera
- flash plugin
- winamp 2.95beta
- youtube downloader
- app2.0 and cs4
- k-lite
- irfanview
@Bill Hunt
Please read my post one more time, from unknown reason for me Enter was working on this forum like: shift text down, and write above old txt, no idea why it happend but it happened, sorry.
sources: canon s2 and s5 mostly: 640x480 30fps progressive, avi contained motion jpeg, easy compression, 10 minutes of such material is about 1GB, audio 2x44.1kHz 16 bits pcm (wav)
alternative source which when added always starts ffdshow are movies from youtube downloaded by youtubedownloader to mp4, and changed into avi 640x480 2x44.1 by the same program, codec unknown i will tell you which coded when reaching home
Project setup: 640x480, 30 fps (30.00000 not 29.97 etc) progressive scan, 2x44.1kHz I runs in laptop dell xps 1710 (4GB, t7200) but is connected to external nas with gigabit lan and is capable of speeds around 66MB/s
Exporting target is: uncompressed avi, 640x480 30 fps sound pcm, which will be compressed later by virtual dub to x264 or xvid with sound as aac or mp3 or maybe even wav
Movie will be exported to youtube in parts per 15 minutes, and located on my website.
sometimes i export in adobe to avi (to check how it looks, and sent to family to check effect) with xvid coded areound 7 quantization, it looks ok, but shows artefacts is my cpu was busy with other task
@Harm Millaard
This is fairly clean install - please check above, i use 4 windowses on the same hard drive:
- video editing, programming microcontrollers, general stuff, experiments with codecs, so "video editing windows" is not contaminated with other crap
. You ask why i am using k-lite. So when i dont have k-lite and start adobe and open project, adobe package eats ram and at level about 1.95GB is shows errors about system resources and crash itself (not crush just disappears from ram). I have no idea why it happens but it happens.

IMac RAM issue...

I purchased my iMac about a month ago, and decided to just start out with 1 GB of ram. I wanted to monitor how much of that RAM I was using, so I got a widget that tells me how much free RAM I currently have. My knowledge of RAM is pretty limited, but my understanding is that it is a quick-access form of memory that the computer uses for the information that it's currently working with.
My problem is this: when i first boot up the computer, it says I have around 700-750 MB free. I generally leave Mail and Skype running most of the time, but opening those doesn't seem to affect the RAM too much. When I run other programs, obviously the RAM goes down accordingly. The problem is, when I close those programs, I don't always see a corresponding increase in free RAM. For example, right now I'm running Mail, Skype, and Safari and I'm showing only 83 MB free.
I don't recall seeing this happen until recently. I'm not having any performance problems yet, but it still concerns me. It just seems like once I close those programs the free RAM should jump back up close to where it was. I'm guessing that this problem is more related to my own lack of knowledge, but I would still appreciate any guidance!
17" iMac Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9) 1GB RAM, 2.0 Ghz

When you are closing the open programs - you are actually closing [Quitting] them from the menubar - instead just clicking the red button - similar to the way you could close a program in Windows. Is that correct?
Forgive me for saying that - but I just wanted to make sure that you are actually closing the application instead of just closing the applications window.
Safari [on my machine w/ 1GB RAM] can eat up 700MB by itself in just a couple hours! Usually I only have Mail and Safari open - and with 1GB RAM it can easily drop the FREE RAM available to zero if the machine has not been restarted within 24 hours. If I run a program in "Rosetta" like Microsoft Word or Excel - the FREE RAM is gone even sooner. There is something about these Intel Macs that eat RAM like nothing I've ever seen!
I have just ordered a 2GB kit -and expect it in a couple days. I think that after I install that - I shouldn't have to worry anymore about RAM usage anymore - for a while ;- )

MSI GS70 - RAM Build up?

Anyone else having the problem of RAM building up over time? Like after extended uses and closing game applications, my normal RAM builds up slowly from 19% use to 25% and all the way up to taking up almost 95% of my RAM forcing me to restart the computer to refresh the RAM back to minimal usage. I don't know if I'm wording it correctly but hope you can understand what I mean. Simply put: every time I close applications and continue to use the computer, the minimal RAM usage increases in small increments over time.
Is this normal or am I missing some kind of driver or program that is optimizing it? I'm keeping track using IOBit.

Quote from: zipper on 15-January-15, 17:41:39
Could be this:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/windows-8-338/awareness-thread-windows-8-memory-leak-ndu-sys-4309046.html
usually when RAM builds up is because your C: drive is near it's full limit so it begins to eat RAM as extra storage to prevent overload or w.e you call it.

Dock using up to 1 GB RAM

Hi all
Since I downloaded the 10.8.1 update I've been realizing that the Dock is using insane amounts of RAM memory, which sensibly affects the performance of the system in general. I've seen values over 1 GB (and upto 3.5 GB of Virtual Memory) on the Activity Monitor.
I'm not sure if this also happened with the original 10.8.0 release. I can't say if any especial application is triggering this side effect, either.
is this a known issue? Any fix available?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Sorry for reopening this, but I'm again having the same problem, even more ridiculous.
I've already deleted the plist file three or four times, but this is no longer a solution. I've also restarted the Dock, but it starts eating RAM immediately. Now it's almost 100% of the time above 1 GB. It has even reached 3 GB of RAM.
Really deceiving.
I made yesterday a clean install of Mountain Lion (a.k.a. OSX Vista), and things go from bad to worse.
Regards

New itunes fixed nothing for me!

errors 440-448-236-240 all related to:
"An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"
i just have to run itunes with bonjour service off... no need for it but this worked fine until last update never ever had an issue for years until the last version of itunes.
good luck folks because these are exact same errors in event viewer that started on last update:
posted this in itunes forum but the only way i can stop error from piling up in event viewer is turning off Bonjour Service from Automatic to Disabled
the errors come in blocks of 4 (with non consecutive numbers 540-544-548-536) when i start itunes for my iphone 3gs
this is a clean install of windows 7 professional 64 bit
never had a problem with itunes... nothing ever logged in event viewr thru xp/vista ultimat 64 bit and windows 7 until 3/31/2010 update of itunes which i never should have done... no ipad! 9.1.079 previous version 9.03 worked like a champ fast iphone backups that were like 2 minutes and now it looks as if it's freezing at times but its just going super slow like 6-8 minutes.
Log Name: Application
Source: Bonjour Service
Date: 4/11/2010 8:06:33 PM
Event ID: 100
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: CHEVYSALES
Description:
288: ERROR: read_msg errno 10054 (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Bonjour Service" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">100</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-04-12T00:06:33.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>6692</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>CHEVYSALES</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>288: ERROR: read_msg errno 10054 (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
above message in my event viewer since i updated to this lousy release....
have had bonjour messages before but back with vista last year...new machine running solid and steadt windows 7 64 bit with a reliabilty rating from administrative tools of 10 for past months prior to this update...anyone seeing this and if so is there a fix?
first few backups took for ever on my iphone 3gs..... most go quickly again now.
don't sync too many things other than videos.
as a side note to any user who might be able to help.... i only sync "sync only checked songs and videos" in iTunes on "Summary" tab Devices>Mark's iPhone
looking in windows firewal bonjour has pretty much free reign inbound and outbound.
i use nav 2010 antivirus which unlike older versions has been great since 2009 redesign (small footprint and very little resource use) although with 12gbs ram at 1600 i don't get any issues with apps eating ram.
really would like to get to the bottom of this error as i like running a lean,mean running machine.
based on google responses i am amoung the many windows users who have had more issues with this poor apple release update than any i can remember.
so after all this is there another version of bonjour that will work with windows 7? like previous version i could install after cleaning out the new one.
=========================================
Re: new bonjour/new itunes= Bonjour Serviceerror in event viewer windows 7
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 9:02 AM in response to: chevysales Reply Email
still get errors!
during update i got slew of errors as it shuts stuff down and event viewer shows some as warnings but most as errors.
now after trying new itunes backups of iphones still much slower than prior to 3/31/2010 update (last one) but it at least updates.
i am not leaving bonjour service on automatic i am back to disable as errors shown as follows:
Log Name: Application
Source: Bonjour Service
Date: 4/28/2010 8:43:29 AM
Event ID: 100
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: CHEVYSALES
Description:
240: ERROR: read_msg errno 10054 (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Bonjour Service" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">100</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-04-28T12:43:29.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>8628</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>CHEVYSALES</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>240: ERROR: read_msg errno 10054 (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Log Name: Application
Source: Bonjour Service
Date: 4/28/2010 8:43:29 AM
Event ID: 100
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: CHEVYSALES
Description:
236: ERROR: read_msg errno 10054 (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Bonjour Service" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">100</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-04-28T12:43:29.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>8627</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>CHEVYSALES</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>236: ERROR: read_msg errno 10054 (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
errors 440-448-236-240 all related to:
"An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"
i just have to run itunes with bonjour service off... no need for it but this worked fine until last update never ever had an issue for years until the last version of itunes.
good luck folks

Brian68,
I agree the basic line charge is what is making it worse for those that just want a phone (dumb phone).
Your reasoning that it will only cost an additional $20 is not quite the way I see it. You are forgetting that additional data will be needed for the phones. In other words I would need to up the data to 9-10GB. That's an additional $10-20 per month. So I would be going from $180/mo to $260/mo for total of $1920 over a 24 mo period. Not to mention I would likely be paying a considerable amount for the phones as the dicounted price goes down significantly as you add lines. That being the case, factor in another $500 or so bringing the total extra cost at $2420.
When you do the math the absurdity of the pricing becomes more clear.

X is eating RAM

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