[Leaplist] Memory leaks under FC6 ....
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Mon Nov 12 06:15:55 GMT 2007
William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Kyle Gonzales wrote:
>> William,
>>
>> What exactly is using the memory? Run top and sort by memory usage
>> (done by pressing 'M' in top). That should tell you what processes
>> are eating memory. Do you run Firefox? If so, do you regularly keep
>> it open? It can eat alot of memory with caching.
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2007 8:15 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>
>>> .... I have an AMD64X2 box running FC6 x86_64, mostly stock (stock
>>> kernel, 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 straight off the DVD), running XFCE desktop,
>>> originally chosen for its small memory footprint. The box has been
>>> up 81
>>> days & I have been logged in most of that time. When I do a 'free
>>> -m', I
>>> see:
>>>
>>> [wam at AthlonCube, ~, 7:04:20am] 731 % free -m
>>> total used free shared buffers
>>> cached
>>> Mem: 1943 1897 45 0
>>> 17 359
>>> -/+ buffers/cache: 1520 422
>>> Swap: 1983 1 1982
>>> [wam at AthlonCube, ~, 7:06:48am] 732 %
>>>
>>> or about 3/4 of the 2GB of onboard RAM taken :-). I have 4 desktops
>>> open
>>> and about a dozen rxvt (1) terminals open total, & that's it. This
>>> seems
>>> a bit excessive. I googled 'memory leak XFCE desktop' & found a few
>>> mentions, but most were dated 2004-ish or earlier & all mentioned RAM
>>> use growing at a few hundred KB / (hour|day), i.e. far faster than I am
>>> observing. They were also all (1st page or 2) for Debian or Ubuntu. Are
>>> there any known memory-leak problems w/ either XFCE *and* FC6, or
>>> FC6 in
>>> general ? TIA ....
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> William A. Mahaffey III
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
>>> ever devised by man."
>>> -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
>>>
>
> OK, here goes:
>
> top - 23:47:06 up 82 days, 8:04, 0 users, load average: 0.11, 0.06,
> 0.01
> Tasks: 182 total, 1 running, 174 sleeping, 0 stopped, 7 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi,
> 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 1989992k total, 1944868k used, 45124k free, 98060k buffers
> Swap: 2031608k total, 1852k used, 2029756k free, 283480k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
> COMMAND 9310
> wam 15 0 1723m 575m 10m S 0 29.6 155:54.31
> xfdesktop 9320
> wam 15 0 739m 575m 8584 S 0 29.6 143:54.67
> xfce4-menu-plug 9222
> root 15 0 204m 52m 9716 S 0 2.7 101:48.82
> Xorg 6247
> wam 15 0 6132m 42m 20m S 0 2.2 0:02.25
> thunderbird-bin 19441
> wam 15 0 2282m 25m 14m S 0 1.3 0:13.73
> ekiga 9312
> wam 15 0 2181m 24m 13m S 0 1.3 0:49.41
> Thunar 9314
> wam 15 0 208m 15m 9944 S 0 0.8 2:08.24
> xfce4-panel 1724
> root 15 0 22364 12m 452 S 0 0.6 0:00.25
> restorecond 9308
> wam 15 0 217m 12m 6696 S 0 0.6 0:18.17
> xfce-mcs-manage 9309
> wam 15 0 119m 11m 6520 S 0 0.6 0:44.67
> xfwm4 9305
> wam 15 0 175m 11m 8080 S 0 0.6 0:20.33
> xfce4-session 10729
> wam 15 0 2214m 10m 8844 S 0 0.6 0:00.29
> evolution-alarm 10723
> wam 15 0 2159m 8088 5472 S 0 0.4 0:00.16
> evolution-data- 19219
> root 23 0 102m 5416 1048 S 0 0.3 0:05.81 automount
>
>
> You can see thunderbird open, but xfdesktop et al top the list. I
> don't keep Firefox or thunderbird eternally open, but I do stay logged
> on for long periods (weeks) ....
>
>
Ouch, that looks like gibberish on my box, try this attachment ....
--
William A. Mahaffey III
----------------------------------------------------------------------
"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
ever devised by man."
-- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
-------------- next part --------------
top - 00:14:01 up 82 days, 8:31, 0 users, load average: 0.06, 0.11, 0.07
Tasks: 184 total, 1 running, 177 sleeping, 0 stopped, 6 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1989992k total, 1938132k used, 51860k free, 100420k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 1852k used, 2029756k free, 220300k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9320 wam 15 0 740m 575m 8584 S 0 29.6 144:04.75 xfce4-menu-plug
9310 wam 15 0 1723m 575m 10m S 0 29.6 156:05.97 xfdesktop
6307 wam 15 0 3339m 73m 21m S 0 3.8 1:00.04 firefox-bin
9222 root 15 0 205m 52m 10m S 0 2.7 102:31.07 Xorg
6375 wam 15 0 5173m 43m 20m S 0 2.3 0:08.98 thunderbird-bin
19441 wam 15 0 2282m 25m 14m S 0 1.3 0:13.74 ekiga
9312 wam 15 0 2181m 24m 13m S 0 1.3 0:49.41 Thunar
9314 wam 15 0 208m 15m 9944 S 0 0.8 2:08.74 xfce4-panel
1724 root 15 0 22364 12m 452 S 0 0.6 0:00.25 restorecond
9308 wam 15 0 217m 12m 6696 S 0 0.6 0:18.32 xfce-mcs-manage
9309 wam 15 0 119m 11m 6520 S 0 0.6 0:44.93 xfwm4
9305 wam 15 0 175m 11m 8080 S 0 0.6 0:20.45 xfce4-session
10729 wam 15 0 2214m 10m 8844 S 0 0.6 0:00.29 evolution-alarm
10723 wam 15 0 2159m 8088 5472 S 0 0.4 0:00.16 evolution-data-
19219 root 23 0 102m 5416 1048 S 0 0.3 0:05.81 automount
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