From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760667AbYEBCyn (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 22:54:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755814AbYEBCyd (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 22:54:33 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:3950 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754806AbYEBCyd (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 22:54:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=wS30UkoTmwGVoe+UlD0Oskv+9LkiAarYxLeDwYWy1LRUNQr0nK+hQIhEv0BIlvTxQEp5hZhouR7htpQFb6Y62dPbglQT0QyS9Elog0xFqSPrruDCPbp6tdQah6x4VT2LwPooYyCwKdCd+S2HF1KIrlj1PxTol6OZiBczdUC9vPA= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 19:54:31 -0700 From: "Russ Dill" To: "Kasper Sandberg" Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1209692875.16523.10.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <4818C0BF.5020002@davidnewall.com> <4818C571.8040609@davidnewall.com> <481947AF.4090101@davidnewall.com> <1209655700.27499.28.camel@localhost> <1209692875.16523.10.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > i can also say that i have noticed this on my own workstation, however > thats not really an as valid case, as i have also upgraded userspace and > such over time, but it used to be that my box wouldnt use more than > ~100mb to boot into X with kde open, and about ~300mb at browsing/mail > and such, but these days my workstation easily uses 1.5gb of ram for no > apparent reason.. > > something certainly is fishy around here, these days people just tend to > fix it by throwing 10 times more ram in than should really be necessary, > which i guess, is because the ram prices has dropped 10 times > So you aren't really contributing anything to the discussion. It could be userspace, it could be different types of pages you are visiting, it could be the kernel, you haven't really measured what is taking up the memory. And of course, its all because developers are lazy. Thanks for the input.