Freememapplet tray icon shows decrease in Free Space every minute.
I have a free space of around 7.8 GB .I have installed Lucid Puppy in HDD.
The tray icon free space count starts decreasing from 7.8-7.7-7.6 and so on.
Partview shows 8.6 GB and there is no decrease in free space.
It seems to be a bug in tray icon.
I terminated the freememapplet in Pprocess manager and restarted X server and the issue is solved.
However this tray icon bug crops up after few hrs.Again I got to restart the Xserver or terminate freememapplet.
Someone pls help
Freememapplet shows free space decreasing every minute
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What lucid version exactly?
Installation type?
A very common source of free mem loss is the browser cache.
Set it as low as possible.
Installation type?
A very common source of free mem loss is the browser cache.
Set it as low as possible.
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Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
[url=http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage]Consult Wikka[/url]
Use peppyy's [url=http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html]puppysearch[/url]
I believe you installed on ext3 filesystem
the journal ( deamon ) is running all the time somehow and rearranges the inodes and blocks whatever so the files and folders don`t get fragmented if they increase.
the journal rearranges on the partition and doesn`t uses free RAM or the swap partition.
so files and folders get temporarily duplicated a while.
thats why to leave some 5 or 10 % space left on ext3
CUPS printing job queue uses also a lot of space at /var/spool/cups .
some apps also write a lot to /tmp or /root/.APPLICATION ( buffers or caches )
the journal ( deamon ) is running all the time somehow and rearranges the inodes and blocks whatever so the files and folders don`t get fragmented if they increase.
the journal rearranges on the partition and doesn`t uses free RAM or the swap partition.
so files and folders get temporarily duplicated a while.
thats why to leave some 5 or 10 % space left on ext3
CUPS printing job queue uses also a lot of space at /var/spool/cups .
some apps also write a lot to /tmp or /root/.APPLICATION ( buffers or caches )
I've taken screenshot while freememapplet tray icon starts displaying decrease in freespace.
I've taken the screenshot with no activity on computer.
Please someone take a look @ the screenshot in attachments puppy1.png
I've taken the screenshot with no activity on computer.
Please someone take a look @ the screenshot in attachments puppy1.png
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taking screenshot while htop running :
midori 11 % CPU 12.4 % MEM
X :0 -br -nolisten tcp 6 % CPU 3.6 % MEM
CPU 1.050 GHz RAM 384 MB swap 2 GB
feels for wrong kernel boot parameters or wrong drivers
maybe fsck`ing may fix something
older e2fsck --version of other linux distro from 2004 I`m runnig sometimes can`t fsck 4.3-puppy ext2 filesystem because of unsupported features.
also some different xorgwizard settings might help
midori 11 % CPU 12.4 % MEM
X :0 -br -nolisten tcp 6 % CPU 3.6 % MEM
CPU 1.050 GHz RAM 384 MB swap 2 GB
feels for wrong kernel boot parameters or wrong drivers
maybe fsck`ing may fix something
older e2fsck --version of other linux distro from 2004 I`m runnig sometimes can`t fsck 4.3-puppy ext2 filesystem because of unsupported features.
also some different xorgwizard settings might help
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Another thing is your running CONKY , a program that isn`t shipped by default.
I had to recapture a little because I had a similar theme with running high CPU too .
The issue had been installing Iron browser for puppy 5 on 4
There was a wrong lib version so I simply copied it from 5 to 4 and linked it while running and not from the outside.
CPU consumption went to 100 % immediately and typing `top` at console gave "Segmentation Fault"
I`m not sure if you installed conky to observe your problems or if your trouble is caused by installing some additional software.
Also running without swap partition is difficult even with about 512 MB of RAM.
The nearly 100 % RAM usage of yours is a sign of running a full frugal install because frugal and full installs treat RAM different.
I had to recapture a little because I had a similar theme with running high CPU too .
The issue had been installing Iron browser for puppy 5 on 4
There was a wrong lib version so I simply copied it from 5 to 4 and linked it while running and not from the outside.
CPU consumption went to 100 % immediately and typing `top` at console gave "Segmentation Fault"
I`m not sure if you installed conky to observe your problems or if your trouble is caused by installing some additional software.
Also running without swap partition is difficult even with about 512 MB of RAM.
The nearly 100 % RAM usage of yours is a sign of running a full frugal install because frugal and full installs treat RAM different.