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Sort the application in the bottom half of that window by memory and share the screenshot. What else is open?
here is images of sys monitor and htop let me know if you find anything unusual https://ibb.co/RQfKNZK https://ibb.co/sRWbT94
Could you sort the SYS monitor by "Memory" please? You have it currently sorted by "Downloaded".
As for htop, could you hide threads? Hitting "h" should do it, IIRC.
🤔 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_memafter 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.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
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.
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
this is ps_mem `[coldwater@Arch ~]$ sudo ps_mem Private + Shared = RAM used Program
144.0 KiB + 26.5 KiB = 170.5 KiB fusermount3 368.0 KiB + 68.5 KiB = 436.5 KiB rtkit-daemon 460.0 KiB + 16.5 KiB = 476.5 KiB vmnet-bridge 380.0 KiB + 159.5 KiB = 539.5 KiB xsettingsd 380.0 KiB + 213.0 KiB = 593.0 KiB vmnet-netifup (2) 552.0 KiB + 194.5 KiB = 746.5 KiB xdg-permission-store 656.0 KiB + 272.5 KiB = 928.5 KiB agent 1.0 MiB + 34.5 KiB = 1.0 MiB vmnet-natd 912.0 KiB + 190.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB dconf-service 924.0 KiB + 217.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB at-spi-bus-launcher 916.0 KiB + 238.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB systemd-userdbd 976.0 KiB + 262.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB at-spi2-registryd 1.0 MiB + 267.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB xdg-document-portal 1.1 MiB + 270.5 KiB = 1.4 MiB power-profiles-daemon 1.1 MiB + 376.5 KiB = 1.5 MiB systemd-machined 1.0 MiB + 496.0 KiB = 1.5 MiB mount.ntfs (2) 1.3 MiB + 294.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB accounts-daemon 1.1 MiB + 610.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB systemd-timesyncd 1.8 MiB + 123.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB (sd-pam) 1.6 MiB + 514.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB systemd-logind 1.6 MiB + 515.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB dbus-broker-launch (3) 1.6 MiB + 599.5 KiB = 2.2 MiB kwin_wayland_wrapper 2.1 MiB + 170.5 KiB = 2.3 MiB bash 884.0 KiB + 2.0 MiB = 2.8 MiB sudo (2) 2.8 MiB + 218.5 KiB = 3.0 MiB upowerd 3.1 MiB + 357.5 KiB = 3.4 MiB polkitd 2.2 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 3.5 MiB xembedsniproxy 2.8 MiB + 865.5 KiB = 3.6 MiB systemd-userwork (3) 2.5 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 3.8 MiB gmenudbusmenuproxy 3.0 MiB + 850.5 KiB = 3.8 MiB sddm 3.4 MiB + 472.5 KiB = 3.8 MiB systemd-udevd 3.7 MiB + 313.5 KiB = 4.0 MiB dbus-broker (3) 3.4 MiB + 1.0 MiB = 4.4 MiB sddm-helper 3.7 MiB + 883.5 KiB = 4.6 MiB xdg-desktop-portal 4.6 MiB + 421.0 KiB = 5.0 MiB vmnet-dhcpd (2) 5.2 MiB + 587.5 KiB = 5.8 MiB wpa_supplicant 5.4 MiB + 410.5 KiB = 5.8 MiB pipewire-pulse 5.4 MiB + 578.5 KiB = 6.0 MiB udisksd 6.4 MiB + 2.6 MiB = 9.0 MiB kioworker (2) 6.4 MiB + 3.3 MiB = 9.6 MiB systemd (2) 8.2 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 9.9 MiB NetworkManager 11.0 MiB + 379.5 KiB = 11.4 MiB systemd-journald 10.2 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 11.8 MiB xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 11.2 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 12.6 MiB libvirtd 14.2 MiB + 1.0 MiB = 15.2 MiB pipewire 10.3 MiB + 5.3 MiB = 15.6 MiB smbd (3) 14.2 MiB + 2.2 MiB = 16.4 MiB joystickwake 12.5 MiB + 5.2 MiB = 17.7 MiB kactivitymanagerd 13.0 MiB + 5.2 MiB = 18.3 MiB polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 16.2 MiB + 2.2 MiB = 18.4 MiB wireplumber 15.6 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 18.8 MiB startplasma-wayland 13.8 MiB + 5.3 MiB = 19.1 MiB xdg-desktop-portal-kde 14.0 MiB + 5.3 MiB = 19.3 MiB kwalletd6 13.7 MiB + 5.9 MiB = 19.6 MiB ksmserver 13.7 MiB + 6.0 MiB = 19.7 MiB kaccess 14.7 MiB + 5.7 MiB = 20.4 MiB org_kde_powerdevil 16.6 MiB + 6.4 MiB = 23.0 MiB DiscoverNotifier 21.8 MiB + 4.2 MiB = 26.0 MiB Xwayland 22.0 MiB + 10.2 MiB = 32.2 MiB kded6 30.4 MiB + 2.5 MiB = 32.8 MiB easyeffects 31.6 MiB + 8.9 MiB = 40.5 MiB Xorg 40.4 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 41.7 MiB baloo_file 27.9 MiB + 14.3 MiB = 42.2 MiB konsole 71.6 MiB + 23.3 MiB = 94.9 MiB kwin_wayland 153.3 MiB + 24.7 MiB = 178.0 MiB plasmashell
886.3 MiB================================= `