Originally posted by r
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Possibly, something on your system has a memory leak. Finding these, without source code, can be difficult. It'll be interesting to see what top shows after the next day.Leave a comment:
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Top in Terminal says Firefox:12%; Knotify: 8%; Xorg: 9.1%;Kwin: 3%; Plasma Desktop: 3% and a few other processes under 1% each. When I check the System Monitor widget from the panel it now reads 1.7 Gb total RAM being used. No swap so far, but after a few days the RAM usage increases. I'll have to try Top tomorrow and see if it's much different. I didn't know about using top in the terminal; thanks!Leave a comment:
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What does top in a terminal or System Activity (Ctrl+Esc) show is eating your RAM?Leave a comment:
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Kubuntu 11.10 gradually uses a lot of RAM and Swap
Since installing Kubuntu about two months ago, I keep noticing that it gradually uses more and more RAM and also swap. I've noticed when it gets to using about 2 or 2.5 Gb then it also uses swap at an increasing rate. Today it got up to 3.4 GB of my 4 Gb of RAM and was using 1 Gb of swap. I've almost never had any Ubuntu-based distro use swap, or anywhere near that much RAM! The system then slows down a bit, and all I'm doing is browsing the internet and maybe watching a video online. I have to reboot almost weekly and then it's back to using about 0.7 Gb of RAM for a brief time.
This doesn't seen normal. What can I do?
AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor
4 GB DDR3 memory
(2 Gb swap)
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