Re: memory problem
On 12/27/08 06:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping.
I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and
some small background processes.
Here's an output of htop several minutes after quitting iceweasel (it's
still running to do some clean up, I suppose). Below, the processes are
sorted by MEM%, but none of them are taking more that 4% CPU time.
What did you use to generate this report?
CPU[||| 5.2%] Tasks: 112 total, 1 running
Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||233/249MB] Load average: 2.71 2.99 2.75
Swp[|||||||||||||||||| 298/511MB] Uptime: 5 days, 01:10:57
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
30542 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.22 /usr/lib/iceweasel
30513 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 D 0.0 62.0 37:15.22 /usr/lib/iceweasel
30520 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.00 /usr/lib/iceweasel
30519 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:01.08 /usr/lib/iceweasel
I think it's interesting (in a bad way...) that there are 6
individual iceweasel processes running, since no matter how many IW
windows I have open, there's only one firefox-bin (or, sometimes,
xulrunner-stub) process.
[snip]
2383 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 1:27.84 /usr/bin/python /u
2373 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 8:28.62 /usr/bin/python /u
3148 lefevre 20 0 18948 1760 1384 S 0.0 0.7 3:13.87 fvwm2 -cmd FvwmM4
3174 lefevre 20 0 10204 1596 1196 S 0.0 0.6 0:39.00 xterm -geometry 80
Once iceweasel has really quit, everything is back to normal:
CPU[|| 3.2%] Tasks: 106 total, 1 running
Mem[||||||||||||| 52/249MB] Load average: 0.29 0.96 1.87
Swp[|||||||| 129/511MB] Uptime: 5 days, 01:20:48
RAM, at least in the US, is dirt cheap, selling at NewEgg for around
10$/GB. Unless, of course, this is an unexpandable laptop.
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