Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday, October 24, 2010 04:18:02 stan wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:38:23 +0100 >> >> Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I am experiencing a gradual performance drop problem --- having a >>> machine running 24/7, after some time (say, two weeks) the system >>> becomes increasingly slow, in terms of desktop response. >> <snip> >> >>> The symptoms appear like something is leaking memory --- slowly >>> (noticable only after two weeks of continuous running), but >>> cumulatively. >> This probably isn't much help, but what happens if you log out when it >> starts to slow, stop X, and then start X? I mean, go to runlevel 3, >> then back to runlevel 5. If everything is OK again, it tells you that >> the problem is in X. If it isn't, the problem is in the system part, >> the OS. > > Just tried it, logged out and logged back in. Didn't go to runlevel 3, X gets > restarted with only logging out and in, AFAIK. > > Anyway, you seem to be right! Restarting X purged most of the swap, from > 1.3 GB it went down to 31.4 MB. And the system regained responsiveness. > > So apparently something inside X is leaking memory. But X has many components > --- compiz, emerald, KDE, Xorg, intel driver, etc., so any idea how do I > diagnose this further? You can not be sure that the memory is used by X; it could be one of the graphical apps running in your X session. By restarting X you restarted all of them too. Keep an eye on the output of this command and see if something increases suspiciously after a day or two. ps ww -e k -rss o pid,pmem,command,rss,size,vsz|head -20 I have a similar problem; my session has been up for more than 130 days and it is getting slower and slower, especially on desktop switching (but still usable). It looks like X is leaking/fragmenting/doingsomethingwrong, but my configuration is very peculiar (F10 with KDE3 and nvidia binary driver, many many applications running), so I have no hope to track it down and have it solved. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
