I just upgraded my laptop from FC1 to FC3 a few days ago and since then I'm seeing terrible memory usages. The laptop has 1GB plus 1GB swap but I've ran it out of memory by simply using openoffice, mozilla and a few other smaller kde apps. Nothing similar has ever happened to me before and I checked everything I can come up with without result. Example Mozilla: Just after starting mozilla I see this: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla mozilla-bin 97084 29392 After just visiting /. for a few stories the memory usage has grown to $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep mozilla mozilla-bin 142016 44528 Example OpenOffice: Starting OpenOffice $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice soffice.bin 143976 51996 Opening a 9 page document with very simple layout (25000 characters) $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice soffice.bin 157708 68780 After typing the word hert and the rightclicking to get corrections: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soffice soffice.bin 323336 234440 Example Kmail Starting Kmail: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 44352 24276 After viewing 15 emails from ebay: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 49796 30760 After viewing 100 random emails (about 30% html) $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 69144 47132 Viewing the same 100 emails one more time: $ ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep kmail kmail 78956 53624 I'm a little suprised to see such memory usage within 15 minutes of booting my laptop. If I keep going, I'm running my laptop out of memory within about a day. Anyone got an idea? Peter.
