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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Memory Usage
From:       Matthew Ando <ando () chow ! mat ! jhu ! edu>
Date:       1998-07-02 2:18:34
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Here's what I found.

fvwm2, kfm, kvt -- 9 MB
fvwm2, kfm,  kvt, NS 3.01 -- 12 MB

kwm, kfm, kvt -- 12 MB
kwm, kfm, kvt, NS 3.01 -- 15 MB.

fvwm2, kfm, kvt, kmail, kppp (so I can write this e-mail) -- 12 MB 

These figures are from "free" and  are reported less the "buffers".  If I 
include the "buffers" then all of these use about 30-35MB; I have 40 installed.

As I understand it, the "buffering" is linux being clever.  My experience is
that, however much RAM I have installed on my system, linux manages to use a
lot of whatever's available for "buffering".  Is it possible that the wide
variation in  figures that are being reported are a result of differences in
counting "buffering"?


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Matthew Ando
Department of Mathematics               ando@math.jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins University                (410) 516-8179
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