Hi,
Just installed Ubuntu 24.10 and noticed a very high ram usage. I’ve installed two softwares so far, Chromium and Miniconda (no venv is active). is there a way to find out what is the reason. so far aksing the ChatGPT, Google search, ect for help, hasn’t led to any solution.
( on LinuxMint never had this issue, even running ollama,open-webui and comfyui at once never got past 27GB ram usage.)
Sorry to say thst showing us screenshots does make it easy to help you.
Whenever possible please copy and paste text rather than images.
Have a look at what information you can get from terminal commands top and htop which may give better information than an image which I can’t see clearly enough.
Thank you for the reply. htop shows a diffrent story, same processes but diffrent memory usage. aksed in manjaro-gnome, fedora-gnome forums and seems it’s wayland related issue. just downloaded linuxmint. strange, as I said running usual workflow on linuxmint was less than 30GB now running one application already in 75GB
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- -------cpu-------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st gu
1 0 38912 2352520 6220 21442172 0 9 950 15656 15240 9 6 2 91 0 0 0
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 91Gi 70Gi 2.2Gi 278Mi 20Gi 21Gi
Swap: 8.0Gi 38Mi 8.0Gi
True and LinuxMint is based on Ubuntu too.
I reinstalled LinuxMint and ran the same workflow. It’s seems the difference is in how the resource usage is presented (Cache size and Ram usage). I don’t know which one is correct.
htop is usually the most correct one for endusers to read because it simply shows a sum of the actually used physical ram for applications (listed as RES in the app list as well) and comparing both htop outputs the values do not differ too much between your two systems.
the gnome tool seems to simply sum up the total of ram, buffers and caches which in the end should be as high as possible on a linux machine for performance but will not actually tell you a lot about application memory usage
Thank you for your response. Yes, it seems that’s the case. If I might judge the data based on GPU temp and cooling noises from my tower PC, it’s definitely quieter now.
