I think I figured out what is causing my swap problem. I was rotating
through a bunch of pictures with the "slide show" feature for my
background screen with KDE. After a little while my memory got full and
swap fully used. Then memory would release but swap usage remained. So
there might be a memory leak in KDE's "Desktop Background" slideshow
code. If I disable the slide show it doesn't occur.
Thanks for the opinions
Doug P
Mike McCarty wrote:
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
