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KDE 1.5GB idle is this normal? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux4noobs

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[–] onlinepersona 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

🤔 Nothing looks suspicious there besides easy effects. No idea what that is. Since you're seeing programs of your own user and not that of the system, there might be services running besides yours.

Could you try running sudo htop, hiding threads, and sorting by memory?

One additional programming you can run is ps_mem. Try running sudo ps_mem after installing it and either screenshotting or copy pasting the result result here.

P.S you can explore a more detailed system monitor in KDE by hitting Ctrl+ESC(ape). It will open ksysguard. I'm on mobile now, but maybe that can also be opened in root with ksudo ksysguard. But the output of ps_mem should be more helpful.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Easy effects is an audio equalizer software and this is ps_mem results: https://rentry.org/7obq4y56 edit: it's seems system monitor and neofetch report 1.5GB but htop and ps_mem report <1GB

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It is curious that the system monitor and neofetch are reporting the same value while ps_mem and htop aren't. But those internals unknown to me, but my guess would be different methods of calculating shared memory. You can look up that term if you like. I haven't grasped it.
Private memory seems to be physical RAM usage.

The only candidates for less memory usage are probably

baloo: file indexer for faster searches in KDE apps. If you don't search files or text often (or at all), might as well deactivate it in KDE system settings
smbd: mounts SMB drives (remote filesystem's) I think. Do you do that? If not, you might as well uninstall it

The gains would be small though (~40-50MB?). Up to you.

Also surprisingly the DiscoverNotifier uses nearly as much RAM as plasmashell? That's the update notifier. No idea how to disable it nor if you want to. Just think that it's a little much for its task.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

40-50mb is hardly worthwhile considering I also use SMB and occasionally search for apps and files, I don't really know what using other 1gb because plasmashell and all of the system services only use <800mb edit: I installed gnome task manager and I saw 600mb caches