Re: Clearing SWAP
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:18:25AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri May 2 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I'm in the middle of a movie conversion using ffmpeg and I am getting:
> top - 08:17:17 up 19:26, 4 users, load average: 1.04, 1.36, 1.45
> Tasks: 174 total, 3 running, 169 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
> Cpu(s): 50.4%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 49.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 2075308k total, 2024600k used, 50708k free, 118460k buffers
> Swap: 2104472k total, 816k used, 2103656k free, 1128936k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 8268 pbc 25 0 31640 18m 2176 R 100 0.9 53:51.56 ffmpeg
> 5223 root 16 0 87180 58m 12m S 1 2.9 37:45.27 Xorg
> 6012 pbc 15 0 27224 15m 8824 R 0 0.8 0:01.59 xfce4-terminal
How can a process be in the middle of something, yet the system is 49%
idle with 0% wait, while ffmpg is 100%. Or is this a multi-core system
and ffmpeg isn't multi-threaded?
I do note that your xfce4-terminal has a 15m Res. Seems excessive just
for a terminal.
I would call a box with 2GB ram a "big" box. My smaller box has 64 MB,
then there's my 486 with 32 MB...
Doug.
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