Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

[Peter Viskup <skupko.sk@gmail.com>]

On 02/08/2013 10:44 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Peter Viskup:
> > viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status
> > Name:   gnome-shell
> > VmPeak:  3537456 kB
> > VmSize:  3403068 kB
> I am not sure, but I suspect you misinterpret those numbers. This is the
> amount of memory that the application thinks is available for itself.
> This does not equal the actual memory requirements of the process.
>
> My system currently shows:
>
> $ ps aux | awk '{ print $5 }' | tail -n +2 | awk 'BEGIN {s=0} {s+=$1} END {print s}'
> 8206540
>
> $ free -k
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       3955268    3346440     608828          0     298128    2139064
> -/+ buffers/cache:     909248    3046020
> Swap:            0          0          0
>
> The sum of all processes' virtual memory sizes is about nine times the
> size of actual memory in use (887 MiB vs. 7.8 GiB with only 4GB of
> physical RAM available, no swap).
>
> J.

You are probably right with not best lines shown from status file. 
Anyway I saw that gnome-shell consumed more than 1100MB(=approx. 29% of 
4GB  real mem) for VmRSS.  System was swapping and the only application 
consuming more than 10% of memory was <?guess?> ;-)

--
Peter