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From: Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>
To: Dmitri <dmitri@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Exaggerated swap usage
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* Dmitri <dmitri@users.sourceforge.net> [021130 08:11]:
=20
>> I have the problem without leaving it a few hours, but when I do it gets
>> definitely worse. Last vmstat output I quoted here showed around 256MB
>> swapped. A few hours later - the computer had been sitting idle, only
>> the mail server for three users was running which poses no overhead at
>> all -, the entire 512MB SWAP space was used. Why, I don't know.

>As I saw the thread today, I started looking at it myself, on RH's
> 2.4.18-18.8.0. By now I have:

> 1  0  0 432892  23828  44648 407208   0   0     0    24  780   879  95   =
5   0
>         =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

>However, top says:

>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 1450 dmitri    15   0  546M 178M 16212 S     1.1 23.6  21:50 pan

>I close pan, and what a change!

> 3  0  0 432664  20720  44748 410260  88   0   392    20  710   925  95   =
4   1
> 1  0  0  46316 197172  44760 409684  40   0    40   160  782  1177  88  1=
2   0

>So you probably still have some process which is eating your memory. And
>once you find it, restart it:

>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 3994 dmitri    15   0 15044  14M  6152 S     0.9  1.9   0:00 pan

This is not the problem in my case. It happens without any app getting
out of control in memory consumption, although with some kernel - don't
remember which one it was right now - X tend to show this, even killing
all the apps running. The only way to get back to normal memory usage
was re-starting the X server.


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