FC3 memory usage problem

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Sat Nov 27 03:23:06 UTC 2004


On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Peter Arremann wrote:

> I just upgraded my laptop from FC1 to FC3 a few days ago and since then I'm 
> seeing terrible memory usages. The laptop has 1GB plus 1GB swap 

I have similar config - laptop with 1G ram, 2G swap - and I notice the
following (after logging out from X - and checking usage from VT-1)

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# uname -srvp
Linux 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686
# uptime
 21:12:45 up 2 days, 10:43,  6 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.42, 0.31
# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1034568     813708     220860          0     246924     265168
-/+ buffers/cache:     301616     732952
# slabtop
  OBJS ACTIVE  USE OBJ SIZE  SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
258815 252624  97%    0.68K  51763   5    207052K ext3_inode_cache

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(Don't remember the usage numbers for FC1) - perhaps this is where the
memory usage is different between FC1/FC3?

Satish




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