Re: swap

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:46:35AM +0100, andy wrote:
 >>>
> >>>Clicked on "our team", and the RAM got hammered again. Big freezeup of 
> >>>gkrellm, then the page was loaded, and free RAM levelled out at 84MB. 
> >>>That means that 110MB of RAM is being used to view the site. There has 
> >>>to something wrong with it, surely.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >
> >    I was curious so I clicked the link, nothing unusual no ram-sucking
> >on my machine. I am running Sid.

> >  
> FWIW, I can concur with Frank here. I checked with both Konqueror and 
> IceWeasel and there was nothing unusual. I agree there was a quick tug 
> on CPU resources, but that passed rapidly. Otherwise, no anomalies.

It does seem like the problem, whatever it is, is solved in Sid.  So
I'll wait for a while.

I tried setting ulimit -v to 98304 and it did keep Xorg from thrashing
the system, it would just kill off the remote Konq and the terminal
window running top.  However, I've go a new problem:  My panel in Xfce
doesn't show up.  I tried moving my configs out of the way and I've
tried purging and reinstalling xfce-panel with no luck.  All that
thrashing and hard reboots may have damaged something.  I don't have
samhain to tell me if anything has changed or gone missing.  If I can't
solve it, I'll keep my eye on the rest of the system and if other things
go haywire I'll consider just reinstalling.

Thanks for all your help.

Doug.