Some Process Questions

[egan]

For some reason, it doesn't seem right for gnome-panel to be using 256.4 MiB memory... is this normal? According to top, it is also using 322 MB swap space.

My panels are almost the same as the default in Ubuntu 9.04... the only thing I did was remove the switch-users applet, the evolution launcher, and the help launcher, and I added a terminal launcher, and a gvim launcher.

[egan]

Also, is it normal to have 6 apache2 processes?
And 6 getty processes?
And 2 gdm processes?

[Hal343]

I am running 2 gdmprocess, using much less memory, but I am on my laptop running XFCE, so don't expect that much since I'm not running Gnome. Unless you're running a server, you shouldn't have any apache services running. The 6 getty services are normal.

[egan]

Thanks for the input.

I restarted gnome-panel and its memory usage dropped down to 6.5 MiB, I don't know how it got so high in the first place.

I am running an http server, but since I am kind of a novice in computing, I wasn't sure whether there should be six different instances of apache.

EDIT: Upon checking again, gnome-panel is up to 15.1 MiB, about three hours after restarting it. Is there some sort of memory leak? It doesn't make sense that the panel use so much memory. I had been running gnome-panel for a week, maybe that's why it accrued more than 500MB memory usage.

[Hal343]

Apache will open as many instances as it takes to handle the load on the server. I don't use gnome-panel, myself, so don't know why memory use increases.