On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:21:10PM +0000, andy wrote:
> Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> >I think it is memory issue. Programs generally are using more memory
> >with new releases. Use 'free' command to see your memory situation.
> >'top' can tell you which processes are consuming most memory. You can
> >use also System Monitor with gnome or KDE System Guard but they use
> >more guess what: memory. :)
> >
> >
> I am on a P4 machine with 1Gb of RAM and what surprises me, running Etch
> with a 2.6.18 kernel is that even with this setup, there are times when
> approx 10% of my swap space is being used. Memory seems to be cached
> readily, but released grudgingly, altho' to be fair, I am using a Gnome
> DE. This really only becomes a problem when playing a game like Oolite
> (basically because the game becomes so slow to respond on full screen)
> or when I am burning a recently converted video file to a DVD using
> growisofs (then the entire system freezes and I have to pull the mains
> on it and reboot).
>
> I don't know if this is just my machine or a more general problem in
> Etch having only been using Etch for a few weeks now.
I'm seeing some similar stuff in my one etch desktop -- always some of
the swap is being used. My specs are way lower than your's but I'm
using xfce. I don't see this behavior on my sid desktop, though it has
more memory and has a more stripped desktop which could be hiding
it.
I've got a P4 with 256 megs and 256 megs of swap. I'm currently
showing
andrew@debian:~$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 248152 229800 18352 0 2324
83880
-/+ buffers/cache: 143596 104556
Swap: 248996 91304 157692
with nothing on my desktop but two terminals -- 1 with mutt and one
with just the free command.
I've got a couple things running -- mysqld and gdm -- that would add a
bit, but still it seems like a lot more swapping is going on than I'd
like.
maybe I need to play with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
A
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