🤔 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_mem after 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.
🤔 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.Anti Commercial-AI license
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
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.
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