And am confused as many report close values of around 400mb? for Cinnamon & KDE.
Setup: Amd x250 dual processor,4gb ram,Ati 4350 video card using default open drivers on both.
Mint 14 KDE 64bit bootup to idle desktop: 432mb.
Mint Cinnamon 14 64bit bootup to idle desktop: 824mb
Both run same conky script. each a weather applet (plasmoid),and each gmail notifier.
I have not been able to identify why my system seems 2x the ram of others or vs. KDE?
Any insights or help to where to look would be appreciated.
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top - 22:45:47 up 37 min, 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.27, 0.18
Tasks: 156 total, 1 running, 155 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 10.2 us, 3.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 86.4 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 4049220 total, 1545436 used, 2503784 free, 78384 buffers
KiB Swap: 3535868 total, 0 used, 3535868 free, 382872 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2335 orbmiser 20 0 971m 246m 41m S 15.9 6.2 2:37.85 firefox
1372 root 20 0 221m 94m 22m S 6.0 2.4 1:08.26 Xorg
2062 orbmiser 20 0 1580m 126m 42m S 4.3 3.2 1:20.24 cinnamon
16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 0:01.78 kworker/u:1
2519 orbmiser 20 0 559m 28m 11m S 1.0 0.7 0:03.16 gnome-terminal
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.88 ksoftirqd/1
1742 orbmiser 20 0 674m 26m 12m S 0.3 0.7 0:01.19 gnome-settings-
1 root 20 0 24440 2344 1300 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.65 init