[PLUG] Swap usage keeps increasing
Mel Andres
mel97215 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 25 13:59:01 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:19, Wil Cooley wrote:
> A memory profiler is a coder's tool; it probably won't help you much.
> The easiest thing is probably to use 'top'--start it an press 'M'
> (capital, lower-case). Pay attention to the RSS column; this stands for
> Resident Set Size, which is the amount of actual physical memory in
> use. For reference, here's some of my most memory-heavy processes on my
> laptop with 512MB memory and the same in swap:
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
> 4120 root 15 0 86784 56M 8668 S 3.1 11.1 277:11 0 X
> 15140 wcooley 15 0 53216 51M 18236 S 0.5 10.3 3:57 0 mozilla-bin
> 17320 wcooley 15 0 44356 43M 16508 S 0.0 8.6 2:15 0 evolution
> 4541 wcooley 16 0 17772 16M 8476 R 1.7 3.1 4:03 0 gnome-terminal
> 4482 wcooley 15 0 20388 14M 13448 S 0.0 2.9 0:23 0 nautilus
> 4491 wcooley 15 0 15948 14M 12164 S 0.0 2.8 1:13 0 gaim
> 4480 wcooley 16 0 14144 12M 8788 S 0.1 2.4 0:40 0 gnome-panel
> 4419 wcooley 15 0 22556 11M 2180 S 0.0 2.2 1:15 0 gconfd-2
> 17322 wcooley 15 0 8912 8912 7060 S 0.0 1.7 0:00 0 evolution-womba
> 4528 wcooley 16 0 9440 8804 7164 S 0.5 1.7 1:15 0 wnck-applet
> 4536 wcooley 16 0 8864 8556 7208 S 0.0 1.6 0:15 0 netspeed_applet
> 4350 wcooley 15 0 9332 7444 7236 S 0.0 1.4 0:04 0 gnome-session
> 4532 wcooley 16 0 7956 7392 6688 S 0.0 1.4 0:04 0 wireless-applet
> 4530 wcooley 15 0 7880 7104 6524 S 0.0 1.3 0:02 0 mixer_applet2
> 17324 wcooley 15 0 6940 6940 5940 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 0 evolution-alarm
> Wil
Thanks Wil,
Seems my version is slightly different, but here is a snapshot:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3182 root 25 0 115m 30m 4504 S 35.1 12.1 442:02.83 X
951 root 15 0 31424 29m 4964 S 0.0 12.0 0:23.21 rcd
5071 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:08.65
evolution-1.4
5089 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.01
evolution-1.4
5090 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.05
evolution-1.4
5091 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.07
evolution-1.4
5092 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.11
evolution-1.4
5099 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.02
evolution-1.4
5100 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.01
evolution-1.4
5101 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.01
evolution-1.4
5102 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.01
evolution-1.4
5121 mel 15 0 26036 25m 17m S 0.0 10.2 0:00.03
evolution-1.4
3299 mel 26 1 14976 14m 1080 R 59.6 5.8 496:30.01 setiathome
5190 mel 15 0 14888 14m 9124 S 2.3 5.8 0:10.33
gnome-terminal
3204 mel 15 0 15940 8940 1204 S 0.0 3.5 0:03.59 gconfd-2
3225 mel 15 0 10220 8472 6424 S 0.0 3.3 0:09.99 gnome-panel
4738 mel 15 0 8156 8156 6752 S 0.0 3.2 0:00.21
evolution-alarm
5083 mel 15 0 8156 8156 6752 S 0.0 3.2 0:00.17
evolution-alarm
5088 mel 18 0 6452 6452 5264 S 0.0 2.5 0:00.14
evolution-womba
5096 mel 17 0 6412 6412 5228 S 0.0 2.5 0:00.13
evolution-womba
5186 mel 16 0 5944 5944 4764 S 0.0 2.3 0:00.10
evolution-womba
4767 mel 15 0 5940 5940 4764 S 0.0 2.3 0:00.10
evolution-womba
4763 mel 15 0 5840 5840 4672 S 0.0 2.3 0:00.10
evolution-womba
5182 mel 15 0 5840 5840 4672 S 0.0 2.3 0:00.10
evolution-womba
5223 mel 16 0 5840 5840 4672 S 0.0 2.3 0:00.09
evolution-womba
5079 mel 15 0 5560 5560 4452 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.09
evolution-womba
5075 mel 17 0 5552 5552 4444 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.09
evolution-womba
I have 256MB physical memory, and 512MB swap. Multiple threads, ok, but
should they remain after I close the application? Do you think I just
just go buy a couple more DIMMS?
--
Mel Andres
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