On 30/12/05, Douglas Phillipson <phillipd@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Run top in a terminal and then type 'M' (that's a shift-m) to order the processes by memory usage. Should give you an idea of what's going on. -- Kind regards, John Francis
