[PLUG] System chewed into swap space

website reader website.reader3 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 00:41:21 UTC 2014


Sorry to clog up the group for a bit...

as Russel requested -

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#ps aux | sort -k 6nr | head
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root      1263  4.7 31.0 11901852 3822816 tty7    Ss+  Sep20  1734:34
/usr/bin/Xorg -br :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth
/var/lib/kdm/AuthFiles/A:0-KGjMjb
owner     1782  0.0  2.0  4686932  248344 ?       Sl   Sep20     2:01
kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]
owner    31829 72.0  1.2   235620  158440 pts/14  RN+  13:34   172:35  gp
owner     1922  0.2  1.1  3431964  144508 ?       Sl   Sep20    77:06
kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]
owner     1904  0.2  0.4  2876068   56612 ?       Sl   Sep20    99:57  kwin
-session 10e4696e75000140054471300000028330000_1411250072_655708
owner    25417  0.1  0.4   551052   55040 ?       Sl   17:19     0:01
kdeinit4: dolphin [kdeinit] --icon system-file-man
owner     2304  1.4  0.4  1168244   51048 ?       Sl   Sep20   534:07
/usr/lib/gnome-terminal-server
owner    22519 42.4  0.3    50944   41608 ?       RN   Oct14   639:32
./cuboid.quadratic
owner    22521 42.3  0.3    50944   41608 ?       RN   Oct14   639:02
./cuboid.quadratic
owner    22525 42.3  0.3    50944   41608 ?       RN   Oct14   638:54
./cuboid.quadratic
-------------------------------
#cat /proc/meminfo
-------------------------------
MemTotal:       12320880 kB
MemFree:         5127860 kB
Buffers:           21212 kB
Cached:           292892 kB
SwapCached:       847164 kB
Active:          3731376 kB
Inactive:        2097020 kB
Active(anon):    3605120 kB
Inactive(anon):  1935248 kB
Active(file):     126256 kB
Inactive(file):   161772 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:      12586920 kB
SwapFree:        1308252 kB
Dirty:               216 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:       4669336 kB
Mapped:           175484 kB
Shmem:             26072 kB
Slab:             974524 kB
SReclaimable:     768240 kB
SUnreclaim:       206284 kB
KernelStack:        3824 kB
PageTables:        56920 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    18747360 kB
Committed_AS:   15282916 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      335444 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359399772 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:    133120 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:      343552 kB
DirectMap2M:    11182080 kB
DirectMap1G:     3145728 kB
-----------------------------------
#free
-----------------------------------
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      12320880    7193944    5126936      26072      21236    1908484
-/+ buffers/cache:    5264224    7056656
Swap:     12586920   11278604    1308316
-----------------------------------
#lsmod
-----------------------------------
Module                  Size  Used by
xfs                   983087  0
nilfs2                181488  0
jfs                   193489  0
ipheth                 13448  0
nls_iso8859_1          12713  0
nls_cp437              16991  0
vfat                   17411  0
fat                    65905  1 vfat
usb_storage            62062  0
fuse                   95850  2
af_packet              39774  2
bnep                   19704  2
bluetooth             396742  5 bnep
binfmt_misc            17431  1
fglrx                8823563  140
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     45213  1
snd_hda_codec_analog    94059  1
arc4                   12608  2
snd_hda_intel          48171  5
snd_hda_codec         205080  3
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13602  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               110211  3
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                69752  0
snd_timer              29423  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         14497  1 snd_seq
snd                    87501  19
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              15047  1 snd
rtl8192ce              83832  0
rtl8192c_common        71013  1 rtl8192ce
rtl_pci                35543  1 rtl8192ce
rtlwifi                90192  2 rtl8192ce,rtl_pci
mac80211              635601  3 rtl8192ce,rtl_pci,rtlwifi
cfg80211              522716  2 rtlwifi,mac80211
rfkill                 26487  3 bluetooth,cfg80211
snd_page_alloc         18710  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sr_mod                 22411  0
iTCO_wdt               13480  0
mxm_wmi                13021  0
iTCO_vendor_support    13718  1 iTCO_wdt
intel_powerclamp       14705  0
sky2                   62287  0
amd_iommu_v2           19054  1 fglrx
shpchp                 32936  0
wmi                    19070  1 mxm_wmi
lpc_ich                21080  0
serio_raw              13413  0
mfd_core               13435  1 lpc_ich
coretemp               13435  0
kvm_intel             142707  0
kvm                   469295  1 kvm_intel
crc32_pclmul           13113  0
ghash_clmulni_intel    13259  0
aesni_intel            55665  0
ablk_helper            13597  1 aesni_intel
cryptd                 16262  3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
lrw                    13286  1 aesni_intel
gf128mul               14951  1 lrw
glue_helper            13990  1 aesni_intel
aes_x86_64             17131  1 aesni_intel
pcspkr                 12718  0
acpi_cpufreq           19790  0
mperf                  12667  1 acpi_cpufreq
cdrom                  46652  1 sr_mod
i2c_i801               22444  0
ata_generic            12910  0
i7core_edac            28216  0
edac_core              62342  1 i7core_edac
asus_atk0110           18657  0
button                 13952  1 fglrx
sg                     40629  0
dm_mod                 92428  0
autofs4                42770  2
btrfs                 913904  0
raid6_pq              106004  1 btrfs
zlib_deflate           26914  1 btrfs
xor                    21411  1 btrfs
libcrc32c              12644  2 xfs,btrfs
crc32c_intel           22079  1
ata_piix               35038  7
processor              44641  1 acpi_cpufreq
thermal_sys            36646  2 intel_powerclamp,processor
scsi_dh_rdac           17447  0
scsi_dh_hp_sw          12895  0
scsi_dh_alua           17295  0
scsi_dh_emc            17258  0
scsi_dh                14882  4
scsi_dh_rdac,scsi_dh_hp_sw,scsi_dh_alua,scsi_dh_emc
-----------------------


On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> >>>>> "website" == website reader <website.reader3 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> website> Just looking for something I overlooked.  My openSuse v13.1
> website> went into swap space and everything slowed down.
>
> [...]
>
> website> I checked /var/meminfo and ran free commands, vmstat too,
> website> something is using the swap, but not a user
> website> program. Everything else looks normal.
>
> website> Any ideas to go from here?
>
> Can you post the output of:
>
>  # ps aux | sort -k 6nr | head
>  # cat /proc/meminfo
>  # free
>  # lsmod
>
> ?
>
>
> --
> Russell Senior, President
> russell at personaltelco.net
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