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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