Accumulating swap over time

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Dec 30 16:25:01 UTC 2005


John Summerfied wrote:
> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 
>> Running FC4 kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp.  I seem to accumulate a large 
>> amount of swap over time.  (A few days.  I'm not running any unusual 
>> apps.  My memory stastics (xosview) says I have gobs of free memory 
>> but after a while, even with a gig or more of free RAM my swap goes up 
>> to several hundred megabytes and things slow way down.  The disk swaps 
>> madly and then backs off for a while.  It seems to be cyclic in nature 
>> but the swap never goes away until a reboot.  At all times I have in 
>> excess of a gig of free RAM.  The only apps I'm running are Firefox, 
>> Thunderbird, openoffice 2.0, perhaps a music player on this machine 
>> under KDE 3.5.0.
> 
> 
> AFAIK Mozilla (and probably derivitives) leak memory fairly badly. I've 
> reported it to mozilla.org (as have others), but not knowing how not to 
> have the problem I can't describe to them how to have the problem, and 
> they didn't seem very interested.
> 
> Here are my memory hogs:
> 
> 13973 summer    15   0  407m 201m  15m S  1.7 41.3 327:17.73 mozilla-bin
>  6200 root      15   0  240m  35m 2292 S  4.0  7.3 203:13.70 X
>  5959 summer    15   0  189m  34m  10m S  0.0  7.1   5:17.81 
> thunderbird-bin
>  7491 summer    15   0  210m  34m  18m S  0.0  7.0  20:37.67 soffice.bin
> 
> 

My system looks very similar...

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  4155 root      15   0  195m  31m 4000 S  2.2 13.2   2385:07 X
13937 jmccarty  16   0  134m  31m   9m S  0.0 13.2 104:53.28 thunderbird-bin
26893 jmccarty  16   0  133m  21m 9644 S  0.0  8.8   4:52.89 mozilla-bin
  4517 jmccarty  15   0 30836 9648 4160 S  1.9  3.9   2:27.15 gnome-terminal
  4462 jmccarty  16   0 44300 7476 3692 S  0.0  3.0   1:32.43 nautilus
  4470 jmccarty  25  10 33868 5872 2548 S  0.0  2.4   5:23.62 rhn-applet-gui
  4403 jmccarty  16   0 15316 4164 3220 S  0.0  1.7   4:34.03 metacity
  4515 jmccarty  16   0 22104 4096 2932 S  0.0  1.7   2:41.79 wnck-applet
  4460 jmccarty  16   0 26960 3996 2752 S  0.0  1.6   1:08.55 gnome-panel

All the rest is (individually) less than 1%.

Mike
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