On 10/13/2010 02:08 PM, Dj YB wrote: > On Wednesday October 13 2010 22:16:27 JD wrote: >> On 10/13/2010 12:02 PM, Dj YB wrote: >> On Wednesday October 13 2010 20:40:05 JD wrote: >> >> On 10/13/2010 11:24 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dj YB<yehielb@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> tried the fedora-kde list first but got no response. >> >> whenever I look at the processes table I see that kglobalaccel is taking >> about 125 MB of memory, that is a lot. >> I admit that I have lot's of shortcuts and gestures, but still, is that >> number normal? >> >> Determining how much memory is used by a single PID is tricky. In the >> case of KDE, which has a lot of shared code, it's even trickier. Much >> of the memory footprint seen in ps might be in libraries shared by >> other KDE apps on the system. >> >> Yehiel, what is the RSS (Resident Set Size) for kglobalaccel ? >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> 2480 djyb 20 0 183m 127m 4048 S 0.0 12.7 0:49.64 kglobalaccel >> >> according to top, 127m, I guess that 127MB >> >> OK, I compared it to the RSS of Firefox, with 6 windows, and average >> of 4 tabs per window. The RSS for firefox is 183m which is very >> reasonable. >> >> I do not know what kglobalaccel does, and it has no man page, and I do not >> run it. > As far as I can understand kglobalaccel is responsible for all the global > shortcuts and mouse gestures in KDE. > >> What is your total physical ram and how much swap space do you have? > ram 1 GM, swap 2 GB. > >> If you absolutely must have this app running, I think you will have accept >> it's mem usage as normal. > kdebase-runtime-4.4.2-3.fc13.i686 : KDE Runtime > Repo : fedora > Matched from: > Filename : /usr/bin/kglobalaccel > >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ >> COMMAND 2539 jd 20 0 698m 182m 30m S 7.3 9.0 >> 23:00.45 firefox 3862 jd 20 0 277m 12m 9964 S 2.6 0.6 >> 0:04.76 gnome-terminal 1832 root 20 0 174m 35m 6984 S 2.0 1.7 >> 3:51.51 Xorg If you do not absolutely need those shortcuts and gestures, then you might want to disable kglobalaccel (click System-Administration->Services) and disable kglobalaccel. OK, so when you do top, how much of swap is being utilised? If only a small amount, then you have to live with it. It is not impacting you very much. If a large amount, you may want to look into adding ram. Ram is cheap nowadays. Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines