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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:17:26PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > Now, with three full-screen xterms up at boot, and using
> > reverse video, my memory footprint is about 11M. It runs
> > up from 6M when I first startx, for reasons I haven't
> > investigated yet. 
> > 
> >           total     used      free   shared      buffers
> >   Mem:   126584    11376    115208        0          244
> >  Swap:   128484        0    128484
> > Total:   255068    11376    243692
> > 
> > There isn't enough in the buffers to account for the
> > difference.
> > 
> > It increments each time I run an app like mutt.
> 
> You will get a *much* better idea of what is happening
> if you execute:  top
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven

Okay. I wrote this script, which will run in the background
the next time I boot BL:


#!/bin/sh
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
date >> /root/topfile
ps >> /root/topfile
sleep 60
exit 0

The top on BL doesn't have the option of printing out
a copy of the current readings, so I used ps instead
after making sure they report the same for memory use.

Yeh, I know I could have used incrementation and made
that a lot prettier, but it's so easy with nvi to
just append copies of the same group of lines to the
file.

Thanks much,

Lee

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