Hi
I have installed Nvidia340 driver using it's own installer. I need Nvidia for google-earth. But this system is not powerful and has only 2 gig ram. With Nvidia driver, Salix-Xfce ram usage dramatically increases from 200 mb to 600 mb in idle state. Is there a way to reduce ram consumption without changing desktop?
Salix + Nvidia consumes too much ram
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Re: Salix + Nvidia consumes too much ram
Hello Hosein,
I'd rather try to upgrade Firefox to 60.3.0esr if not already done, or use chromium.
Best regards,
Didier
I'd rather try to upgrade Firefox to 60.3.0esr if not already done, or use chromium.
Best regards,
Didier
Re: Salix + Nvidia consumes too much ram
Hi Didier
I didn't get your point. I asked about ram usage of system in idle state without opening any program. Why should my system eats 400 mb more ram just to boot Xfce desktop? I guess you mean running google-earth in browser instead of using it's API. Browser based google-earth just provides some basic features which are not useful for professional tasks.
I didn't get your point. I asked about ram usage of system in idle state without opening any program. Why should my system eats 400 mb more ram just to boot Xfce desktop? I guess you mean running google-earth in browser instead of using it's API. Browser based google-earth just provides some basic features which are not useful for professional tasks.
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Re: Salix + Nvidia consumes too much ram
I wrongly assumed that you ran google-earth in a browser, sorry for the confusion. Did you try memusage/memusagestat to check what processes actually consume the RAM? top and htop can also help.
Also there is no lack of messages about google earth consuming a lot of RAM on the Internet (maybe not relevant to this case, though), and I doubt that using a lighter graphical environment be more than a workaround.
Also there is no lack of messages about google earth consuming a lot of RAM on the Internet (maybe not relevant to this case, though), and I doubt that using a lighter graphical environment be more than a workaround.
Re: Salix + Nvidia consumes too much ram
Google-earth is not guilty here. I see this increase in ram usage just after booting to Xfce. I know this issue has nothing to do with Salix. It seems that Xfce components use much more ram in comparison with a nouveau enabled system. Take a look at attached image
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymd7i1ik3wint ... 8.png?dl=0
Also I find some topic about this issue with Xfce and Nvidia and not sure if this the case. just for the report I have installed infinality patch set and i'm not using genuine cairo.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160055
Edit: Also I am using Salix 32 bit on 64 bit system.
https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index. ... ic=32051.0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymd7i1ik3wint ... 8.png?dl=0
Also I find some topic about this issue with Xfce and Nvidia and not sure if this the case. just for the report I have installed infinality patch set and i'm not using genuine cairo.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160055
Edit: Also I am using Salix 32 bit on 64 bit system.
https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index. ... ic=32051.0