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Description of problem: top - 14:26:20 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.59, 0.19, 0.07 Tasks: 108 total, 1 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8156664k total, 405372k used, 7751292k free, 19124k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 161636k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ P COMMAND 1094 root 20 0 259m 38m 9076 S 1.3 0.5 0:00.64 0 lxdm-greeter-gt 1086 root 20 0 146m 21m 9836 S 0.7 0.3 0:00.43 1 X 895 root 20 0 146m 5416 4504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.17 0 NetworkManager 1 root 20 0 37420 4416 1992 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.13 2 systemd 932 root 20 0 184m 3748 2836 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 1 polkitd 1119 root 20 0 2034m 3704 2688 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 console-kit-dae 1067 root 20 0 75328 3240 2540 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 sshd 957 root 20 0 71032 2932 2288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 2 modem-manager 1087 root 20 0 75900 2204 1680 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 1 login 882 root 20 0 19004 2120 1600 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 0 smartd 1184 root 20 0 113m 2036 1600 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 bash 464 root 20 0 17648 1748 976 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 0 udevd 911 dbus 20 0 21864 1748 1296 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 1 dbus-daemon 1081 root 20 0 33484 1700 1408 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 lxdm-binary 950 root 20 0 239m 1660 1232 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 rsyslogd 901 root 20 0 28316 1636 1356 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 systemd-logind 841 root 20 0 115m 1500 932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 crond 1072 exim 20 0 91316 1480 644 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 exim 1202 root 20 0 15240 1284 968 R 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 1 top 628 root 20 0 17644 1096 320 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 udevd 629 root 20 0 17644 1096 320 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 udevd 475 root 20 0 23196 976 788 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 3 systemd-stdout- 1088 root 20 0 106m 860 732 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 3 agetty 1091 root 20 0 106m 860 732 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 agetty 1089 root 20 0 106m 856 732 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 agetty 1090 root 20 0 106m 856 732 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 2 agetty 787 root 20 0 109m 840 340 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 mount.ntfs-3g 798 root 20 0 109m 840 340 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 mount.ntfs-3g 855 root 20 0 16924 816 664 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 3 atd 892 root 20 0 20584 804 556 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 irqbalance 1069 nobody 20 0 13088 772 600 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 dnsmasq 904 root 20 0 6448 720 572 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 3 acpid 905 root 20 0 11560 476 376 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 1 system-setup-ke 886 root 20 0 6924 412 300 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 gpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 16 x86-64 release How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into Fedora 16 x86-64 *without even starting a user X session* 2. Login on a text console and run top 3. Actual results: see top output, ***405372k used*** Expected results: something like 4-5 times less. Additional info: *All* running tasks are shown above (except kernel threads which have zero memory usage).
Unilaterally suggesting that everything should use 4-5x less memory isn't a useful opening statement. If you've got particular applications that you feel are using too much, and have ideas on how their memory usage could be curbed (or a reason why it would be considered definitely a bug), please file that against the inidividual component; as a distribution-level issue, there is little that can be done here.
I've identified the culprit - it's the nouveau kernel driver - if I reboot with this driver blacklisted/disabled, memory usage drops by over 250MB. It seems like nouveau uses system memory for something, when it must use GPU memory (and I have 512MB of it).
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Same bug on Fedora 17: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473547
(In reply to comment #4) This bug is about the nouveau kernel driver, your bug is totally different.
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