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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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