Kubuntu Desktop using TOO much memory

[MaquinaX]

Hello Everyone,
Lately I've noticed that when ever a program is asking for a little more out of the system (when Amarok is importing library), the system just hangs for about 10 minutes. At first I thought it was a but with Amarok,
but then I discovered that it happens whenever ANY program is taking up more memory than usual. I'm running Kubuntu 8.04. I have 1G of memory in my system, and this is not an issue with by Ubuntu desktop running 7.10. I then restarted my Kubuntu desktop, and it turns out that it's using 800mb of memory !!! right out of start up. Where is all my memory going to? If anybody can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanx,

MaquinaX

[skymera]

Can you run `top` in the Terminal (Konsole?)

Post the output.

[MaquinaX]

I guess it's using more then what I expected, but where is it all going. Is it a bug?

MaquinaX

### Top Result ###
top - 22:15:31 up 3 days, 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.11, 0.09
Tasks: 119 total, 2 running, 117 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.7%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1035364k total, 934796k used, 100568k free, 326184k buffers
Swap: 5807456k total, 39952k used, 5767504k free, 462448k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5530 root 20 0 47004 30m 5068 S 4.3 3.0 2:59.43 Xorg
16452 jose 20 0 32596 13m 11m S 0.7 1.4 0:05.30 kded
16460 jose 20 0 29608 11m 8884 S 0.7 1.1 0:07.00 kwin
16464 jose 20 0 32824 14m 11m S 0.7 1.4 0:06.58 kdesktop
16469 jose 20 0 36556 18m 13m S 0.7 1.8 0:06.58 kicker
16505 jose 20 0 24316 12m 10m S 0.7 1.2 0:01.80 kde-window-deco
23829 jose 20 0 33728 15m 11m R 0.7 1.5 0:01.30 konsole
23890 jose 20 0 39752 21m 16m S 0.7 2.2 0:00.84 kate
23909 jose 20 0 2304 1116 856 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.32 top
1 root 20 0 2844 1692 544 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.26 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.56 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.94 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
41 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.04 kblockd/0

[MaquinaX]

ttt

[MaquinaX]

anyone?