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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