[gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Luigi Pinna]

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Hi!
Since I changed my graphic card from ATI to NVIDIA I have a strange 
problem.
I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I 
can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap.
The results is that my computer stopped to work. If I log out and log in 
again all my memories (ram and swap) are free again.
I tried nv and nvidia drivers.
I use kde 3.5.2 with a FX5200 on amd64 with 2006.1 desktop profile.
Can you help me?
Thanks a lot,
Luigi
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[b.n.]

ciao,

Luigi Pinna ha scritto:
> I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I 
> can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap.

- fire up a shell
- enter 'top'
- digit Shift+M to order processes for RAM consumption (memory-eating 
processes are on top of list)
- wait
- tell us what the bad process is

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Luigi Pinna]

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Alle 14:41, venerdì 6 ottobre 2006, b.n. ha scritto:
> ciao,
>
> Luigi Pinna ha scritto:
> > I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know
> > I can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap.
>
> - fire up a shell
> - enter 'top'
> - digit Shift+M to order processes for RAM consumption (memory-eating
> processes are on top of list)
> - wait
> - tell us what the bad process is
>
> m.

from top:
Tasks: 115 total,   1 running, 114 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  8.0% us,  2.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 88.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,  
0.3% si
Mem:   1026588k total,  1016520k used,    10068k free,     9604k buffers
Swap:  1301960k total,   822784k used,   479176k free,   230168k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2919 root      15   0 1267m 489m 4204 S  4.3 48.8   9:15.23 X
[...]

Unfortunately, the problem is the main X process...
How can I isolate the problem?
Thanks, 
Luigi
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Mauro Faccenda]

On Friday 06 October 2006 13:22, Luigi Pinna wrote:
> Alle 14:41, venerdì 6 ottobre 2006, b.n. ha scritto:
>
> Unfortunately, the problem is the main X process...
> How can I isolate the problem?

which driver are you using for your nvidia card?

the opensource one (nv) or the proprietary one (nvidia)? if you are using the 
proprietary one, which version?

[]'s
	.m 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Mick]

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On Friday 06 October 2006 17:22, Luigi Pinna wrote:
> gpgkeys: key 1E69248E633F86B7 not found on keyserver
>
> Alle 14:41, venerdì 6 ottobre 2006, b.n. ha scritto:
> > ciao,
> >
> > Luigi Pinna ha scritto:
> > > I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know
> > > I can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap.
> >
> > - fire up a shell
> > - enter 'top'
> > - digit Shift+M to order processes for RAM consumption (memory-eating
> > processes are on top of list)
> > - wait
> > - tell us what the bad process is
> >
> > m.
>
> from top:
> Tasks: 115 total,   1 running, 114 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  8.0% us,  2.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 88.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,
> 0.3% si
> Mem:   1026588k total,  1016520k used,    10068k free,     9604k buffers
> Swap:  1301960k total,   822784k used,   479176k free,   230168k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2919 root      15   0 1267m 489m 4204 S  4.3 48.8   9:15.23 X
> [...]
>
> Unfortunately, the problem is the main X process...
> How can I isolate the problem?

Perhaps http://www.gnome.org/projects/memprof/ is what you're looking for?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Robert Welz]

Luigi Pinna schrieb:
> Hi!
> Since I changed my graphic card from ATI to NVIDIA I have a strange
> problem.
> I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I
> can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap.
> The results is that my computer stopped to work. If I log out and log in
> again all my memories (ram and swap) are free again.
> I tried nv and nvidia drivers.
> I use kde 3.5.2 with a FX5200 on amd64 with 2006.1 desktop profile.
> Can you help me?
> Thanks a lot,
> Luigi
Can you post you USE-FLAGS in make.conf and the settings for the video
card from there, too? Mine looks like
 USE="arts -berkdb -bitmap-fonts bzip2 doc dvd -eds -emboss -fortran gif
-gnome -ipv6 jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde lo
grotate mmx -motif nvidia -ogg -oggvorbis opengl png qt qt3 sse sse2
symlink -tcpd test tiff truetype vorbis
X"
LINGUAS="de en"
Language=49

# xorg-x11
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
#VIDEO_CARDS="nv vga v4l"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vga v41 vesa fbdev"

I have a GeForce 6800 GT running flawlessly with 3D since one or two
weeks, apart from becoming quite hot. (Its a Gainward card with high
performance so I think thats normal).

Set the flags and do a emerge --newuse -u -D world and if that doesn't
help we can go through X.org config and kernel config.

Robert
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Luigi Pinna]

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Alle 01:11, sabato 7 ottobre 2006, Robert Welz ha scritto:
> Can you post you USE-FLAGS in make.conf and the settings for the
> video card from there, too? Mine looks like
[..]
> I have a GeForce 6800 GT running flawlessly with 3D since one or two
> weeks, apart from becoming quite hot. (Its a Gainward card with high
> performance so I think thats normal).
>
> Set the flags and do a emerge --newuse -u -D world and if that
> doesn't help we can go through X.org config and kernel config.
>
> Robert

My USE:
USE = "3dnow 3dnowex X a52 aac aalib acpi addbookmarks aim alias alsa 
arts audiofile autoreplace avi bash-completion -berkdb bmp 
browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia cdr connectionstatus contactnotes 
crypt cscope cups dga dio directfb divx4linux dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread 
emacs encode -esd exif fame fortran f77 fam fbcon fdftk -freetds ffmpeg 
fftw flac flash ftp gadu -gcj gif -gnome gtk gtk2 hal highlight history 
icq id3 ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irc jack java jikes jingle 
joystick jpeg justify kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos 
kernel_linux krb4 lame latex lcms -ldap lirc live lm_sensors lzo mad 
matroska mbox memlimit mime ming mjpeg mmx mng mono motif -mozilla mp3 
mpeg mpeg2 mp4live mplayer msn mssql mule multilib musicbrainz mysql 
mysqli ncurses netmeeting nls nomac nowlistening nptlonly nsplugin objc 
on-the-fly-crypt ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar -oss pam pcre pdflib 
perl player png posix ppds python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline samba 
sametime sdl sensord sharedmem skey sndfile sox speex spell sse ssl 
statistics svg svga subtitles swat sysfs szip tcltk test tetex 
texteffect theora threads tiff tk translator truetype unicode usb 
userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd videos vorbis webpresence winpopup 
wsconvert wxwindows xanim xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint 
xscreensaver xv xvid x264 yahoo yv12 zlib zvbi"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse penmount joystick"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa v4l"
Unfortunately emerge --newuse world gives me no update for xorg... (I 
had wrote wrong nvidia)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Robert Welz]

Luigi Pinna schrieb:
> Alle 01:11, sabato 7 ottobre 2006, Robert Welz ha scritto:
> > Can you post you USE-FLAGS in make.conf and the settings for the
> > video card from there, too? Mine looks like
> [..]
> > I have a GeForce 6800 GT running flawlessly with 3D since one or two
> > weeks, apart from becoming quite hot. (Its a Gainward card with high
> > performance so I think thats normal).
>
> > Set the flags and do a emerge --newuse -u -D world and if that
> > doesn't help we can go through X.org config and kernel config.
>
> > Robert
>
> My USE:
> USE = "3dnow 3dnowex X a52 aac aalib acpi addbookmarks aim alias alsa
> arts audiofile autoreplace avi bash-completion -berkdb bmp
> browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia cdr connectionstatus contactnotes
> crypt cscope cups dga dio directfb divx4linux dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread
> emacs encode -esd exif fame fortran f77 fam fbcon fdftk -freetds ffmpeg
> fftw flac flash ftp gadu -gcj gif -gnome gtk gtk2 hal highlight history
> icq id3 ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irc jack java jikes jingle
> joystick jpeg justify kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos
> kernel_linux krb4 lame latex lcms -ldap lirc live lm_sensors lzo mad
> matroska mbox memlimit mime ming mjpeg mmx mng mono motif -mozilla mp3
> mpeg mpeg2 mp4live mplayer msn mssql mule multilib musicbrainz mysql
> mysqli ncurses netmeeting nls nomac nowlistening nptlonly nsplugin objc
> on-the-fly-crypt ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar -oss pam pcre pdflib
> perl player png posix ppds python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline samba
> sametime sdl sensord sharedmem skey sndfile sox speex spell sse ssl
> statistics svg svga subtitles swat sysfs szip tcltk test tetex
> texteffect theora threads tiff tk translator truetype unicode usb
> userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd videos vorbis webpresence winpopup
> wsconvert wxwindows xanim xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint
> xscreensaver xv xvid x264 yahoo yv12 zlib zvbi"
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse penmount joystick"
> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa v4l"
> Unfortunately emerge --newuse world gives me no update for xorg... (I
> had wrote wrong nvidia)
>
>
I suggest

VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vga v41 vesa fbdev" (remove nv)
and adding "nvidia" to the USE flags.

but for re-emerging Xorg I am not quite shure. Try emerge xorg-server -p
-v or emerge xorg-x11 -p -v after emerge --newuse
 and see if there is a little R on the left table for "Re-emerging".
Probably there is a xorg-x11 meta ebuild in the portage tree? Look at
the howto for Xorg in the www.gentoo.org documentation section and
simply re-emerge xorg.

Hope that works ;)
Robert


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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

[Luigi Pinna]

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Alle 23:58, sabato 7 ottobre 2006, Robert Welz ha scritto:
> I suggest
>
> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vga v41 vesa fbdev" (remove nv)
> and adding "nvidia" to the USE flags.
>
> but for re-emerging Xorg I am not quite shure. Try emerge xorg-server
> -p -v or emerge xorg-x11 -p -v after emerge --newuse
>  and see if there is a little R on the left table for "Re-emerging".
> Probably there is a xorg-x11 meta ebuild in the portage tree? Look at
> the howto for Xorg in the www.gentoo.org documentation section and
> simply re-emerge xorg.
>
> Hope that works ;)
> Robert

So, I found an error in my make.conf and I emerged some xorg program 
(mesa for example) again.
With nvidia flag I emerged only mplayer again.
But the problem is yet here. I want to try to update xorg to 7.1 and I 
hope that it works...
Luigi

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