On Wednesday 25 May 2011 17:49:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:20 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Alex > Schuster > > did opine thusly: > > Oh, even weirder: The phone just rang, and five minutes later, swap has > > gone to 860M. I was running rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes, maybe > > this uses much memory, and caches the stuff. Now the command has > > finished, and paging has stopped. The rdiff-backup process itself does > > not use much memory. > > > > BTW, does anyone else's kwin use 750M? That's pretty high, I think it > > used to be more like 300M. > > I've been noticing this kind of thing too for a while now. In my case it's > the nepomuk/akonadi/virtuoso stack doing it - it seems to trigger full > scans at weird times and does other special things after a resume from > suspend. > > Virtuoso can sometimes get as high as 800M RES memory in top. Which is all > quite bizarre, I suspect a dodgy config on my part. > > As for kwin - what column are you reading the value from? Here kwin uses > more like 60M
This is kwin usage from a 32bit Pentium 4 box with 3G of RAM: VIRT SHR RES 143m 22m 29m At this moment I am compiling chromium (which will take close to 2 hours) and it's eaten up 1560K swap. Under normal usage the 3G or RAM is more than adequate. Small amounts of swapping happen only when I emerge something large (e.g. OOo) or when I fire up VirtualBox and have umpteen apps open, browsers with dozens of tabs, etc. PS. I have switched off desktop search and although I can see akonadi/nepomuk there's no virtuoso, strigi or other such stuff showing up. -- Regards, Mick
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