how much ram are you using?

[chris200x9]

post a screen shot of "free -m" and tell us what wm, which distro and what's running.

wm: fluxbox

distro: archlinux

what's running:

1 instance of k9copy
2 instances of epdfview
1 instance of firefox with 9 tabs
1 instance of lxterminal with 8 tabs
1 instance of geany with 10 tabs
1 instance of pidgin
1 instance of gnome-mplayer playing a dvd from iso
1 instance of pcmanfm

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edit: tl;dr 3718

[NovaAesa]

[ps@pris ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3958 3860 98 0 150 2946
-/+ buffers/cache: 763 3195
Swap: 4502 0 4502
[ps@pris ~]$


Distro: archlinux
DE: gnome

Running:
3x chrome
1x moc
4x nautilus
3x emacs
6x gnome terminal
1x vlc

[mr_hangman]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2014 1595 418 0 310 657
-/+ buffers/cache: 627 1386
Swap: 2047 0 2047Distro: archlinux
DE: gnome

Running: guayadeque, ff4.0b7 with 20+ tabs

[Simian Man]

CentOS, no DE, a lot running:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 31 31 0 0 0 24
-/+ buffers/cache: 6 24
Swap: 11 0 11

[malspa]

$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2023 1277 746 0 42 698
-/+ buffers/cache: 536 1486
Swap: 1992 0 1992

In PCLinuxOS KDE 2010.07. chromium-browser running with 7 tabs open. Also running Exaile, and of course Konsole to run this command.

[Noz3001]

nathan@GLaDOS:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3707 1876 1831 0 30 950
-/+ buffers/cache: 895 2811
Swap: 0 0 0



How do the arch guys use more? I'm on Ubuntu 10.10

[Old Marcus]

I am glad to say that I am using less than one byte of RAM. I have 6 gigs in my box, money well spent I reckon.

[malspa]

less than one byte of RAM

???

[Cuddles McKitten]

I'm usually around 1.5GB since I do all my work in a virtual machine and keep Firefox open with two metric buttloads of tabs. I use GNOME.

[Rasa1111]

Ubuntu 10.04./GNOME


free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1001 903 97 0 71 417
-/+ buffers/cache: 414 587
Swap: 1609 0 1609


Chromium x2 , 6 youtube tabs in one, 6 various tabs in the other, ubuntu forums, space.com, emails,etc. lol
Songbird
Terminal
Pidgin
Pandora Radio, in AWN dock

[chris200x9]

How do the arch guys use more? I'm on Ubuntu 10.10

How much are you running?

[Half-Left]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3964 3025 939 0 199 1888
-/+ buffers/cache: 937 3026
Swap: 11612 0 11612


Ubuntu 10.4 64bit/GNOME

Chrome, xchat, empathy, rhythmbox, docky.

[cj.surrusco]

Distro: Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
DE: Gnome

cj@RAID5-X4:/$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2008 1949 59 0 53 1094
-/+ buffers/cache: 801 1207
Swap: 1996 0 1996

1-Rhythmbox
1-Chromium
4-Gnome-terminal
1-Evolution
1-Pidgin

[Phrea]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3962 2938 1024 0 33 1260
-/+ buffers/cache: 1643 2318
Swap: 6750 271 6479


Distro: Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
DE: Gnome

1 terminal
1 Opera [5 tabs]
1 Mplayer
1 Nautilus
1 Pidgin
1 Xchat

[e79]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 6118496 6077380 41116 0 200428 1848128
-/+ buffers/cache: 4028824 2089672
Swap: 10482404 8956 10473448

WM : Nautilus
Distro : Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

2x Virtual Machines
5x Firefox tabs
1x VLC (HD)
1x Evolution Mail
2x Terminal
3x WM opened
1x CD tray opened to support coffee mug.

[libssd]

I figured a screencap would be more useful than just the contents of a terminal window. It's interesting that free -m and system monitor report very different stats.

Ubuntu 10.04 (last updated 9/14)
Chrome (updated today) with three tabs
Terminal
System Monitor

[Rasa1111]

1x CD tray opened to support coffee mug.

haha, for real?

[smellyman]

I figured a screencap would be more useful than just the contents of a terminal window. It's interesting that free -m and system monitor report very different stats.

Ubuntu 10.04 (last updated 9/14)
Chrome (updated today) with three tabs
Terminal
System Monitor


system monitor doesn't inlcuded cache into used ram. free -m does.

[CharlesA]

charles@thor:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5981 5924 56 0 97 3106
-/+ buffers/cache: 2720 3260
Swap: 12401 5 12396


Ubuntu 10.04.1 x64
No DE
Few VMs running.

[sandyd]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3928 3090 838 0 470 1364
-/+ buffers/cache: 1255 2672
Swap: 2996 0 2996

recompiling firefox. seems to be very crashy.

[98cwitr]

wm: gnome

distro: 10.04

what's running:

1 Skype
1 Evolution
1 RhythmBox
2 Chrome tabs
1 System Monitor

Sys Mon says 459.3MB used



total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2012 1035 976 0 79 489
-/+ buffers/cache: 466 1546
Swap: 2380 0 2380

[e79]

haha, for real?

Yup yup :p

[Linye]

free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3014 1070 1944 0 72 486
-/+ buffers/cache: 511 2503
Swap: 8831 0 8831
Ubuntu 10.04
gnome
cardapio menu
nautilus
awn
firefox 4.0b7pre (2 tabs)
guayadeque
pidgin (3 tabs)
liferea
terminal

[Legendary_Bibo]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3709 2529 1180 0 77 911
-/+ buffers/cache: 1540 2168
Swap: 10865 0 10865


I'm running Rythmbox, Vuze, Firefox with two tabs, gnomenu, compiz, cairo-dock with open gl. I'd say a good chunk of that is going to my eyecandy. :D

[Legendary_Bibo]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 6118496 6077380 41116 0 200428 1848128
-/+ buffers/cache: 4028824 2089672
Swap: 10482404 8956 10473448WM : Nautilus
Distro : Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

2x Virtual Machines
5x Firefox tabs
1x VLC (HD)
1x Evolution Mail
2x Terminal
3x WM opened
1x CD tray opened to support coffee mug.

I hope that's in kilobytes otherwise you've got like 6TB of RAM.

[Khakilang]

koh@koh-desktop:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1502 852 649 0 49 333
-/+ buffers/cache: 470 1032
Swap: 4398 0 4398
koh@koh-desktop:~$

Ubuntu 10.04 64bits, running only Firefox.

[Blackra1n]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2012 531 1481 0 37 236
-/+ buffers/cache: 257 1755
Swap: 2382 0 2382

Running: gnome-terminal, Firefox

[The Real Dave]

dave@tecra:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1001 918 83 0 46 536
-/+ buffers/cache: 335 666
Swap: 952 0 952



Ubuntu 10.04 with Openbox.

As close to a full list of running apps as I'm willing to get;
Openbox,
Conky
Tint2
Firefox 4 Beta 6
gnome-terminal
Empathy
gnome-bluetooth-applet
battmon
nm-applet
A nautilus browser window
Nitrogen

[ubunterooster]

Ubuntu 10.10: Firefox and reactos (in a VM)


ubunterooster@ubunterooster-mobile:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3705 2267 1438 0 132 1620
-/+ buffers/cache: 513 3192
Swap: 0 0 0
ubunterooster@ubunterooster-mobile:~$

[Bachstelze]

813M, Ubuntu, Gnome, a gnome-term with SSH, firefox with 5 tabs, thunderbird, pidgin, and whatever is running in the background.

[e79]

I hope that's in kilobytes otherwise you've got like 6TB of RAM.

Of course it's in Kilobytes ! I have 6GB of RAM actually in my rig :)

[fatality_uk]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3923 1110 2812 0 97 453
-/+ buffers/cache: 559 3363
Swap: 7627 0 7627

[Roasted]

2.0gb flat.

1.0gb dedicated to an XP VM I'm running.

[CraigPaleo]

Kubuntu 10.10 Beta

The first run only had these two apps running.

Rekonq
Konsole

The second run had:

Rekonq (3 tabs)
Konsole
K3b
KSnapshot
Okular
Dragon Player
Amarok
Dolphin


http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/3848/freem1.png

[Spice Weasel]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2013 1959 53 0 35 1531
-/+ buffers/cache: 392 1621
Swap: 4031 0 4031

[twinaxel]

gizmo@gizmo-desktop:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4014 1224 2789 0 114 666
-/+ buffers/cache: 443 3570
Swap: 9202 0 9202
gizmo@gizmo-desktop:~$

Just firefox running

[ubunterooster]

W/ browser running I use 108 mb RAM... on my Droid ;)

[Calash]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5726 5636 89 0 98 1582
-/+ buffers/cache: 3955 1771
Swap: 11225 1 11224


10.04 x64. Running Windows XP 2 virtual machines, 1 uses 2.0gb and the other uses 1.3gb of memory. The remaining top 5 memory users are Xorg and Chrome(taking 3 spots currently)

[mcduck]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 497 171 325 0 68 60
-/+ buffers/cache: 42 454
Swap: 397 0 397
I have to admit that I only have a couple of terminals open on that system at the moment. But still pretty lightweight for a GUI with even some compositing and stuff running... :)

[cj.surrusco]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 497 171 325 0 68 60
-/+ buffers/cache: 42 454
Swap: 397 0 397
I have to admit that I only have a couple of terminals open on that system at the moment. But still pretty lightweight for a GUI with even some compositing and stuff running... :)

What GUI is it that you are using?

[t0p]

t0p@deimos:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2006 858 1148 0 23 484
-/+ buffers/cache: 350 1656
Swap: 0 0 0


Distro is Eeebuntu 3 (basically Jaunty with a few hardware-specific tweaks). Running Firefox X4, System Monitor, Nautilus X2, and I have a terminal open.

[mcduck]

What GUI is it that you are using?

Openbox, with xcompmgr for compositing and no DM running (I do have automatically starting X, though, I just configured X to autostart when logging in through TTY1).

[Dustin2128]

standard flux, nm-applet and a few firefoxes with about 40 tabs open in all.


total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1883 658 1224 0 151 271
-/+ buffers/cache: 234 1648
Swap: 0 0 0

[emanuel.landeholm]

root@jel-desktop:~# echo "1" > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2011 597 1414 0 0 113
-/+ buffers/cache: 483 1528
Swap: 4008 0 4008


Running: liferea. Chrome Beta w. 7 open tabs, one nautilus browser, one gedit with 3 tabs and a gnome terminal.

[trekrem]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7812 1937 5875 0 292 1025
-/+ buffers/cache: 619 7192
Swap: 3814 0 3814

Ubuntu 10.04.1 x86-64
Linux 2.6.32-24-generic
8192MB RAM (4x2048MB)
Firefox (multiple tabs), Terminal and Empathy running.

[powerpleb]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3962 839 3122 0 41 293
-/+ buffers/cache: 504 3457
Swap: 9538 0 9538

Just running GNOME, Chromium with a couple of tabs open and Htop; which says I am using 549/3962MB.

[t6ti00]

Right now


total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3023 607 2415 0 55 254
-/+ buffers/cache: 296 2726
Swap: 8856 0 8856

I have Firefox (4 tabs open), gedit and nautilus open.

[NightwishFan]

Not nearly enough.. *Starts virtual machine of Haiku, loads compositing and docky, and begins to convert a video*


total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2985 797 2187 0 35 358
-/+ buffers/cache: 403 2581
Swap: 4000 0 4000

DARN STILL NOT ENOUGH!

[l-x-l]

l-x-l@ubuntu-linx:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3275 3106 169 0 580 1981
-/+ buffers/cache: 544 2730
Swap: 4102 0 4102


Ubuntu 10.04.1
Gnome
Firefox 1 tab
Terminator
Compiz
Redshift
MPD

[inobe]

OpenSuSe 11.3 64bit kde




i can transcode/ encode video and still can't use swap, i want the system to use all i got, it's why i have it ;)


free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3961 1098 2862 0 40 591
-/+ buffers/cache: 466 3494
Swap: 2053 0 2053

[K.Mandla]

Under 18Mb, just barely.


Private + Shared = RAM used Program

80.0 KiB + 29.5 KiB = 109.5 KiB agetty
92.0 KiB + 37.5 KiB = 129.5 KiB init
160.0 KiB + 18.5 KiB = 178.5 KiB dhcpcd
136.0 KiB + 88.0 KiB = 224.0 KiB centerim.sh
136.0 KiB + 89.0 KiB = 225.0 KiB elinks.sh
140.0 KiB + 89.0 KiB = 229.0 KiB mc.sh
140.0 KiB + 91.0 KiB = 231.0 KiB vim.sh
332.0 KiB + 87.5 KiB = 419.5 KiB htop
448.0 KiB + 60.0 KiB = 508.0 KiB hnb
348.0 KiB + 288.5 KiB = 636.5 KiB udevd (3)
796.0 KiB + 208.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB screen-4.0.3 (2)
904.0 KiB + 475.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB bash (3)
1.5 MiB + 76.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB wyrd
1.7 MiB + 53.0 KiB = 1.8 MiB vim
1.8 MiB + 189.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB mc
2.0 MiB + 169.0 KiB = 2.2 MiB elinks
2.3 MiB + 249.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB centerim
2.5 MiB + 207.5 KiB = 2.7 MiB alpine
---------------------------------
17.9 MiB
=================================

Private + Shared = RAM used Program
Using the python script from here (http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py) to calculate. :P

Not the best I've done though. This (http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/looking-close-at-memory-usage/) is more impressive, really.

[NightwishFan]

I got around 8 or so with Debian, 13 with Ubuntu. I try not to waste if there is no real need.

[karthick87]

karthick@Ubuntu-desktop:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2001 551 1449 0 66 246
-/+ buffers/cache: 239 1761
Swap: 1587 0 1587

[Windows Nerd]

I'm usually around 1.5GB since I do all my work in a virtual machine and keep Firefox open with two metric buttloads of tabs. I use GNOME.

Same here, my ram usage is almost solely attributed to the buttload of Chromium tabs I keep open.

[Windows Nerd]

Under 18Mb, just barely.


Private + Shared = RAM used Program

80.0 KiB + 29.5 KiB = 109.5 KiB agetty
92.0 KiB + 37.5 KiB = 129.5 KiB init
160.0 KiB + 18.5 KiB = 178.5 KiB dhcpcd
136.0 KiB + 88.0 KiB = 224.0 KiB centerim.sh
136.0 KiB + 89.0 KiB = 225.0 KiB elinks.sh
140.0 KiB + 89.0 KiB = 229.0 KiB mc.sh
140.0 KiB + 91.0 KiB = 231.0 KiB vim.sh
332.0 KiB + 87.5 KiB = 419.5 KiB htop
448.0 KiB + 60.0 KiB = 508.0 KiB hnb
348.0 KiB + 288.5 KiB = 636.5 KiB udevd (3)
796.0 KiB + 208.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB screen-4.0.3 (2)
904.0 KiB + 475.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB bash (3)
1.5 MiB + 76.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB wyrd
1.7 MiB + 53.0 KiB = 1.8 MiB vim
1.8 MiB + 189.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB mc
2.0 MiB + 169.0 KiB = 2.2 MiB elinks
2.3 MiB + 249.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB centerim
2.5 MiB + 207.5 KiB = 2.7 MiB alpine
---------------------------------
17.9 MiB
=================================

Private + Shared = RAM used Program
Using the python script from here (http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py) to calculate. :P

Not the best I've done though. This (http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/looking-close-at-memory-usage/) is more impressive, really.
I see your blog post on how you run an old laptop with 16 mb of RAM. I have an even older laptop with 8 mb of RAM and a 170 mb hard drive and a 133 mz Pentium Processor (probably a 486 I believe). Could I sandwitch Crux on there? It only has a floppy drive.

[Señor Banana]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7929 1532 6397 0 46 571
-/+ buffers/cache: 915 7014
Swap: 16127 0 16127
Total: 24057 1532 22525
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8120008 1575424 6544584 0 47216 587784
-/+ buffers/cache: 940424 7179584
Swap: 16514816 0 16514816
Total: 24634824 1575424 23059400

Kubuntu 10.04
KDE
Firefox 1 tab
Konsole
Songbird
Thunderbird
Ktorrent
Kopete

[Ocxic]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8003 7948 55 0 0 2868
-/+ buffers/cache: 5079 2923
Swap: 0 0 0


firefox
2 vm's running in virtualbox (10.04 Server & Windows 7)
tvtime
Azureus (Vuse)
Banshee

[MasterNetra]

Around 190MB atm. It of course usually depends on what I'm doing.

[MooPi]

Just right :-)

[inobe]

free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3962 1843 2119 0 121 914
-/+ buffers/cache: 807 3155
Swap: 6236 0 6236


this time kubuntu 10.04 64bit

lots of stuff going yet no swap usage.