On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 23:24 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:45, Iain Buchanan <iai...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > > OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap > > usage is up again. It's firefox: > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 14072 iain 20 0 1369m 897m 15m S 3 29.5 113:14.91 firefox > > > > I think that's 1.3Gb + 900Mb... sounds like a memory leak to me. > > > > Anyone else run firefox for 113+ hours? I'm using 3.6.9-r1. > > > > 1.3G is the grant total of Res and Swap. You need to read man top > before judging not-entirely-accurate values reported by top.
judging? I only said "I think"! sure, top has it's quirks, but it's ok for comparing against itself. > 900M is resident on your main memory. '113+ hours' is not a decent > information to draw conclusion from. Running firefox for 113+ hours > with a single tab on a text-only website is not same as running dozens > of tabs with dozens of multimedia/embedded objects. sure, but running it for 10 or 100 or 1000 hours should produce roughly the same characteristics for the same browsing behaviour if all other things are equal. A few months ago this didn't cause any issues at all, now I'm seeing high swap usage. I usually never use my 3G of physical RAM. Again today I see it is using about 900Mb in total, which seems quite large. vm.swappiness is set to 0. I've upgraded firefox to 3.6.12. I had to reboot, but I'll check the usual statistics next time I see it. -- Iain Buchanan <iai...@netspace.net.au>
