[PLUG] System chewed into swap space

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Wed Oct 15 00:07:23 UTC 2014


Just looking for something I overlooked.

My openSuse v13.1 went into swap space and everything slowed down.

I killed all my user programs and tried to run the "swapoff -a && swapon
-a" root command, but the system complains that there is no memory
available for the swapoff command.  Well okay.

I see that /usr/bin/Xorg is chewing up 3+ gigs of memory, I have 12.3 gigs,
but 11.6 gigs is being used.  The next 2 memory hogs are kded4 and
plasma-desktop tasks but only at 167 megs each.

I also set the scroll limit to 10K lines for gnome terminal, and restarted
every user program, but the system adamantly refuses to reliquish swap
space.

I did add another swap partition at 12 gigs, and things took off.

I checked /var/meminfo and ran free commands, vmstat too, something is
using the swap, but not a user program. Everything else looks normal.

Any ideas to go from here?



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