On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 16:44, Scott Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 13:59 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > free -m > > total used free shared buffers > > cached > > Mem: 503 499 3 0 36 > > 187 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 275 227 > > Swap: 517 101 415 > That much swap usage concerns me. I've got one server with 256MB ram, > and one with 1GB. Neither one really touches the swap. Your system uses > 100MB of it though. Even if thats not your biggest problem, it can't > really be helping your situation. Well.. having evolution opened eats up like 175MB worth of space. And this is a Laptop, BTW. :-) > > I can't provide much details as I'm not sure where to begin with > > details. > And that certainly adds to the challenge on all this. I hate to suggest > rebooting as I mercilessly taunt windows users for doing that all the > time, but with your large swapfile usage it feels like you might have > processes with a memory leak. Since this is a laptop, I reboot it quite often :-) > Reboot and try emerging one or two > packages as soon as the machine comes back up. I'll try that and see how things go. > If that does bring > performance back to normal, then it probably is related to all the swap > being used. I do have programs that seem to keep using more memory as > time passes. At various times, xmms, gaim, and firefox have gotten silly > with their memory demands, though it was usually a plugin of some sort > that was the real cause. gdesklets is also one memory hog.(40MB) nautilus (40MB) xmms (25MB) SLAPD (35MB) APACHE(29MB, each I think ) SPAMD (25MB, each?) > Not sure what else to even suggest that you try > if that doesn't turn out to fix it. If its still a mystery, perhaps a > tool like http://oprofile.sourceforge.net which has an ebuild as well as > already being available in most (all?) current kernels will reveal what > percentage of time goes to each process. oprofile eh.. You don't say. Okay.. Time to take a look at it in more detail Thanks for the help. I'll either figure it out or.. I'll live with it:-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:11:40 up 7:51, 7 users, load average: 0.48, 0.54, 0.40 -- [email protected] mailing list
