From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:39:33 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289797773.3977.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=iLtq2kiq0qFUQfy=DdTpFBxUCRXSwcdz0vzZ8@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 23:24 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:45, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> 1.3G is the grant total of Res and Swap. You need to read man top
> before judging not-entirely-accurate values reported by top.
judging? I only said "I think"!
sure, top has it's quirks, but it's ok for comparing against itself.
> 900M is resident on your main memory. '113+ hours' is not a decent
> information to draw conclusion from. Running firefox for 113+ hours
> with a single tab on a text-only website is not same as running dozens
> of tabs with dozens of multimedia/embedded objects.
sure, but running it for 10 or 100 or 1000 hours should produce roughly
the same characteristics for the same browsing behaviour if all other
things are equal. A few months ago this didn't cause any issues at all,
now I'm seeing high swap usage. I usually never use my 3G of physical
RAM.
Again today I see it is using about 900Mb in total, which seems quite
large. vm.swappiness is set to 0. I've upgraded firefox to 3.6.12.
I had to reboot, but I'll check the usual statistics next time I see it.
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-15 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 5:49 [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26 6:16 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-26 6:57 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26 6:30 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-26 7:02 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26 7:18 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-27 22:47 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-27 23:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-10-27 23:59 ` Dale
2010-10-28 1:12 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-28 3:56 ` Dale
2010-10-28 4:34 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-28 6:32 ` Dale
2010-11-05 6:45 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-11-05 13:48 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-11-09 21:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Fatih Tümen
2010-11-15 5:09 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2010-11-15 8:41 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-11-15 14:14 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-11-15 15:26 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-11-15 23:43 ` Dale
2010-11-16 1:17 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26 7:10 ` Dale
2010-10-28 16:13 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-10-28 23:26 ` Iain Buchanan
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