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 <gentoo-user+bounces-116282-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1PEG5V-0002J7-26 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:47:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C6DF1C0FB; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au (mail2.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9741C0FB for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FED31075197 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:17:10 +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 9Q8Z+1c0c8Vw; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:17:10 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (unknown [172.16.0.52]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0934D1075196 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:17:10 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4CC91904.7070506@gmail.com> References: <1288072147.8318.56.camel@localhost> <AANLkTinpCrpc6O+FECTWs_7AcXBCQ17Y0LGeZtM3ihm=@mail.gmail.com> <1288076539.8318.116.camel@localhost> <1288219650.8318.168.camel@localhost> <20101028004454.2d6cc500@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4CC8BCEB.50904@gmail.com> <AANLkTimh9SCbVJVDurE5JfYXHXXyJz7QFfKoLp4+3QiZ@mail.gmail.com> <4CC8F45A.10001@gmail.com> <AANLkTi=pcvHCEhL=L=tF2Cq+zY73YYEMUUhDRtQLNYy0@mail.gmail.com> <4CC91904.7070506@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:15:12 +0930 Message-ID: <1288939512.14313.187.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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: 6e2556e1-886e-4b90-bfb4-634a47e36091 X-Archives-Hash: 5731ab6ed6476e42d3beee2052166d7c OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap usage is up again. It's firefox: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 14072 iain 20 0 1369m 897m 15m S 3 29.5 113:14.91 firefox I think that's 1.3Gb + 900Mb... sounds like a memory leak to me. Anyone else run firefox for 113+ hours? I'm using 3.6.9-r1. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong. -- Walter Dwight