Beginners Questions • Unexpected HTOP results – RAM usage increases more running termit than konsole

I can't make sense of these HTOP results. I've installed plasma-desktop on top of a Debian base install from debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso. I noticed the default terminal, konsole, was using 133M of HTOP res so I installed termit which only uses 55372K of res. I would expect that HTOP mem consumed by the system to be less with termit than konsole as it uses less than half of the res. Results recorded at 3:00 and 5:00 of uptime for konsole were 545M and 559M. Results recorded at 3:00 and 5:00 of uptime for termit were 608M and 619M. There was a system reboot before each set of recordings. Nothing was started after reboot other than the terminal and htop.

Is there some tool other than HTOP which provides a more accurate representation of the actual memory consumed by an app along with the actual consumed system memory? My guess is "NO, I just don't know how to properly interpret HTOP results."

An explanation of how to properly interpret this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

HTOP
Commandvirt res shr
konsole564M133M107M

uptimemem
3:00 545/3.82G
5:00 559/3.82G

HTOP
Commandvirt res shr
termit614M5537242528

uptimemem
3:00 608M/3.82G
5:00 619M/3.82G

Statistics: Posted by CloisteredNeuron — 2024-06-13 04:34 — Replies 2 — Views 24

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