From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PAcRo-00076B-T8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:51:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B06EBE0602; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au (mail2.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F140E0602 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2191075197 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:21:01 +0930 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail2.pcorp.com.au Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UVcF2ivWu8be; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:21:01 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (unknown [172.16.0.52]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6DAF11075194 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:21:00 +0930 (CST) Subject: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:19:07 +0930 Message-ID: <1288072147.8318.56.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9fec233c-f162-48f1-b23b-5293ba4544b0 X-Archives-Hash: 10837d08dd56ed3a1b77cd385a479e01 Hi, over the last week or so I've noticed unusually large swap usage. I usually hibernate this laptop and have uptimes up to 12 days so apps can run for a long time. I don't usually use any swap space (except for a few k). If I swapoff and swapon, the usage falls back to zero but then creeps up again over a few days. $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3040 859 2181 0 38 415 -/+ buffers/cache: 406 2634 Swap: 494 431 62 nothing unusual there, except for the swap usage itself. 'top' doesn't show any large apps. sorted by mem the top 4 are: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 8318 iain 20 0 494m 150m 21m S 0 5.0 1:20.67 evolution 20424 iain 20 0 342m 77m 30m S 0 2.5 0:01.84 firefox 8009 root 20 0 83364 37m 6260 S 7 1.2 38:34.31 X 8090 iain 20 0 159m 32m 1600 S 1 1.1 3:48.08 skype Hm, I just noticed Mem is in %. % of what? % total or % used? Even if it was % of total RAM that could be as much as 152Mb for evo and 76Mb for firefox. Not that much really. any ideas? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan Chuck Norris once skewered a man with the Eiffel tower.