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[โ€“] 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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[โ€“] [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