From the latest version of Gnome 3.24, many applications have doubled and even tripled ram consumption without reason.
Gdm is one of these, directly and indirectly through GSD (gnome settings daemon) takes more than 300 mega ram.
So just change login managers to get more than 300 mega ram available.
Can it be a bug to point out?
For all modern OS (including openSUSE), memory in use statistics have relatively little meaning. In “the old days” you wanted to have as much free memory as possible for new applications to use (or running applications to use more).
The general idea today is that if applications grab everything they can get early, then they don’t have to have additional memory allocation later.
Better statistics generally have to do with latencies, such as if you notice lagging performance.
That said, there can be exceptions like when you work on a resource-intensive workload, and then when done wish to change to another majorly resource-intensive workload. If you <know> you won’t be re-opening old apps, then you may want to manually clear your memory allocations in preparation for you new apps.
I describe this in a document I wrote using the Free tool to display memory usage and include a command to clear your memory buffers and cache
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/free_tool
HTH,
TSU
Following the reasoning you make, I think that Windows Vista was avant-garde.
Or Plasma5 is old because it only uses 500 megabits at boot time.
It’s okay to use memory to get better performance but this does not happen.
GDM uses 300+ megabits for sleep
Equal performance, but dual consumption
Equal performance = good.
Means that whatever you’re doing falls within the anticipated needs of your configuration with room to expand.
Yes,
Technology changes hopefully for the better.
TSU
It needs to understand why Gdm uses 300+ mega rams, and what’s the benefit to me.
Please, be clear. Show output. One post you’re talking about megabits, the next about mega ram. These days desktops try to preload a lot of stuff to have it available once you need it.
But, like said, output, numbers please to support what you think is wrong.
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Gdm and all processes related to it
Not even the screen is enough
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Gdm and all processes related to it
Not even the screen is enough
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lightdm
Sorry the double post, but using the translator is a problem for me
Yes, and so what? gdm clearly preloads a lot of things related to GNOME.
Linux is not about having as much RAM free as you can. Since RAM is fast, linux tries to get as much in RAM as possible. A comparison between gdm en lightdm in nonsense, they’re different, have different features ( lightdm minimal, gdm full blown ).
I would like to have some advantages from this preload.
But it preload unnecessary services
In my opinion, it’s a mistake, a computer with a modern hardware does not need to preload, click and start immediately.
Preloading makes things faster. On older and newer hardware. And it allows modern desktops to have applications that are aware of eachother. If your RAM is something you want to use as minimal as possible, run IceWM. But not for too long, the system’s going to use the caches anyway.
Hi
So what customization’s do you have? Is that Mate desktop, not pure GNOME?
On the Process select the ‘Dependencies’ (Dipendenze).
On my Tumbleweed Gnome I see very few gdm processes (none running by user gdm).
If you create a test user and login as that test user with the default gnome desktop, no customization’s, does it duplicate?
On Sat 22 Jul 2017 01:36:01 PM CDT, malcolmlewis wrote:
V_idocq;2830828 Wrote:
> I would like to have some advantages from this preload.
> But it preload unnecessary services
> In my opinion, it’s a mistake, a computer with a modern hardware does
> not need to preload, click and start immediately.
Hi
So what customization’s do you have? Is that Mate desktop, not pure
GNOME?
On the Process select the ‘Dependencies’ (Dipendenze).
On my Tumbleweed Gnome I see very few gdm processes (none running by
user gdm).
If you create a test user and login as that test user with the default
gnome desktop, no customization’s, does it duplicate?
Hi
OK, managed to duplicate, my system is set to autologin, a logout/login
shows gdm user and the processes… login overhead…
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I have 8 Gig ram … I have no problems, indeed with Lightdm I boot faster even the computer
Preload = placebo effect
Try Lightdm and tell me if you find any differences
So what customization’s do you have? Is that Mate desktop, not pure GNOME?
Gnome shell 3.24
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Gnome3.20 on leap42.2 does not behave as Gnome3.24.
This happens on Thumbleweed.
The same thing happens on Manjaro Gnome3.24. on the other computer