Gone in 58 seconds (Longish)
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 15 12:35:42 UTC 2006
Andy Green wrote:
Thanks for the kind reply.
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>
>>Swap: 524120k total, 221492k used, 302628k free, 49832k cached
>
>
> Hm there's your problem, 221K of swap is in use, everything that wants
> that stuff or memory is going on an voyage out to the HDD.
Erm, the first load is still taking 24 seconds. Perhaps this
is normal.
> I saw your other posts on the thread, the 5M of "free" memory is a bit
> misleading, since the 50M of cached stuff can become "free" at a
I am aware of this.
[snip]
> What does
>
> chkconfig --list
>
> say? Maybe some things can be thrown out that are taking up memory.
>
OTOH, when I unload Thunderbird and Mozilla, memory use drops
dramatically. They eat a lot. So does X.
[memory sort order]
Mem: 248088k total, 240544k used, 7544k free, 18188k buffers
Swap: 524120k total, 104304k used, 419816k free, 59040k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3362 jmccarty 15 0 110m 43m 18m S 1.3 18.0 8:43.37
thunderbird-bin
4159 root 15 0 178m 32m 4904 S 7.0 13.4 992:47.66 X
5214 jmccarty 16 0 68496 20m 13m S 0.0 8.6 0:01.91 mozilla-bin
I don't want to run without X.
# chkconfig --list
irda 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rpcidmapd 0:on 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:on
winbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
nscd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rhnsd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rpcsvcgssd 0:on 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:on
snmpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rpcgssd 0:on 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:on
nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mdmonitor 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ypxfrd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
readahead 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
ypserv 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
netdump 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
cpuspeed 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
vncserver 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
vsftpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
yppasswdd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
yum 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
isdn 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
smb 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
readahead_early 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
microcode_ctl 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mdmpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netplugd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
psacct 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rwhod 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
lisa 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
snmptrapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
smartd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
pcmcia 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd based services:
ktalk: off
rlogin: off
rsh: off
sgi_fam: on
echo: off
rsync: off
daytime: off
time-udp: off
cups-lpd: off
daytime-udp: off
telnet: off
chargen-udp: off
tftp: off
services: off
time: off
rexec: off
echo-udp: off
chargen: off
#
> Also the memory footprint figures on top and so on are misleading -- for
> each process they fully include the shared libs. So if many processes
> are sharing libs (and one can expect it between thunderbird and
> mozilla/firefox) you are seeing the lib footprint included in many times.
>
> An interesting test would be a reboot into your desktop environment,
> followed by opening OO with no other apps up.
>
> Another interesting test would be to close thunderbird and the browser
> and monitor what is happening with the swap situation during that.
> maybe there is some specific issue with, say, thunderbird holding open a
> huge mail folder.
>
> -Andy
>
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