Re: memory problem
On 2008-12-27 16:00 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Are you sure? I also see several firefox-bin processes, but they only
show up in pstree or htop, not in top.
Sven
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