Hello, first of all I am all new to arch base distro’s. I have migrated from deb to arch day before yesterday. After installing manjaro the first thing I did was open task manager then htop. Both of them showed 1.2gb of ram usage where there was no programs opened. I do not have a swap partion I use i3 8gb ram 1gb vram. I previously use to get 300/350 mb memory usage on deb but it is showing too high in manjaro. Please help.
your post is confusing, are you using xfce or i3.
if your checking htop, click the memory section, it’ll line up by use.
Hi @prego.softs, and welcome!
2 things about your post:
- Just because you don’t see it yourself, doesn’t mean there’s nothing running. Your file indexer (I don’t know if Xfce has something like that) will, especially, be taking up much resources just after installation. There are many other things.
- RAM (memory) not used, is wasted and pointless. It would have, actually, been a much bigger problem if it tried to use 16GB of your 8GB RAM.
I have 16GB and I just checked, my RAM usage is ~4.7G.
Also, having things in RAM makes your system more snappy, since RAM is much faster than a HDD or SSD.
So relax, there’s nothing wrong, and remember: RAM not used, is RAM wasted.
Can you post the output of top here ?
OP probably meant Intel i3 processor.
Take a look here:
https://www.linuxatemyram.com
yeah, that makes since. was just to tired to realize.
i have xfce4 running on a rpi400, don’t really notice the 4gb ram growing on my setup.
with just firefox open to this forum i’m ±800mb for usage & it drops -300 when i close firefox.
but you know what they say, “unused ram, is wasted ram” linux caches for faster access the next time the app is open.
i just let it do it’s thing, unless it’s causing problems, i see nothing to worry about.
The article clears a lot of stuff I didnt even know about linux as I am a newbie thank you. Still I will post the tasks result which might give everyone here a bit of light into whats happening, I will be convinced once the members over here give an “ok” signal after seeing the screenshot
Can you post the output of top here ?
https://ibb.co/kQ6M6bP
like htop, top is a command ran in a terminal
It displays a nice summary of the most important things
memory usage included
it looks like this
top - 06:01:07 up 4 days, 22:32, 1 user, load average: 0.53, 0.62, 0.86
Tasks: 201 total, 1 running, 200 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.2 us, 0.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.1 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 7847.8 total, 3196.3 free, 1711.5 used, 2940.0 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 10374.2 total, 10269.5 free, 104.8 used. 5410.0 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
220876 nachlese 20 0 470152 51428 37460 S 2.0 0.6 0:02.70 xfce4-terminal
815 root 20 0 1012320 65336 34640 S 1.7 0.8 200:09.98 Xorg
201652 nachlese 20 0 3753280 578192 214420 S 1.3 7.2 100:31.03 firefox
220518 nachlese 20 0 2826680 276372 149308 S 1.0 3.4 0:32.47 Web Content
1237 nachlese 20 0 502584 42056 29188 S 0.7 0.5 10:15.69 xfce4-panel
1167 nachlese 20 0 12964 5700 3908 S 0.3 0.1 3:07.28 dbus-daemon
1225 nachlese 20 0 790620 50764 31648 S 0.3 0.6 70:34.44 xfwm4
217555 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:02.41 kworker/u8:28-events_power_efficient
220186 nachlese 20 0 2890132 316288 156428 S 0.3 3.9 0:19.74 Web Content
220394 nachlese 20 0 2807572 226928 143316 S 0.3 2.8 0:08.50 Web Content
220563 nachlese 20 0 2801736 226764 142340 S 0.3 2.8 0:08.02 Web Content
1 root 20 0 172224 13144 5748 S 0.0 0.2 0:09.77 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 kthreadd
3 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_gp
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_par_gp
6 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H-kblockd
8 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mm_percpu_wq
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_tasks_kthre
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_tasks_rude_
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_tasks_trace
You should start your computer and login without starting programs like Firefox.
And then use top on console.
I have a computer with XFCE as GUI.
When I login (one file manager and one terminal open), I have a memory consumption of 468 MB.
Well a funny thing happened, first when I was starting my computer and seeing task manager or htop it was showing 1.2gb but now suddenly it came down to 650mb which is acceptable. And I have seen 650mb usage in some youtube channel when I was watching manjaro review. Anyways a big THANK YOU ALL for taking time out for a noobie like me. I guess this is somewhat not even a problem.
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