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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