Hi Steve, Thanks for the explanation.
I've just come back in, opened my computer and waited and waited and waited for it to respond ;-) With xfce4-volumed-pulse, things are as bad as before: with top sorted by %MEM: top - 10:36:36 up 8 days, 34 min, 5 users, load average: 16.32, 19.37, 15.93 Tasks: 249 total, 1 running, 248 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 5.7 us, 1.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 24.5 id, 68.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 3964008 total, 3874228 used, 89780 free, 3040 buffers KiB Swap: 9760764 total, 8485812 used, 1274952 free. 150392 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10701 jdg 20 0 8702408 1.234g 1164 D 0.0 32.7 73:15.19 xfce4-volu+ 10608 jdg 20 0 2560556 1.144g 12604 S 0.3 30.3 32:22.79 xfsettingsd 11137 jdg 20 0 1454064 345380 9332 D 0.3 8.7 21:02.01 iceweasel Then ps aux shows: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND jdg 10701 1.0 32.3 8701956 1281372 ? Dsl May01 73:13 xfce4-volumed-pulse jdg 24918 0.0 0.0 377880 792 ? S<l Apr30 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog But top sorted by %CPU shows very little of interest: top - 10:36:48 up 8 days, 34 min, 5 users, load average: 14.91, 18.91, 15.83 Tasks: 248 total, 1 running, 247 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 2.9 us, 1.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 41.5 id, 54.6 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 3964008 total, 3836104 used, 127904 free, 1748 buffers KiB Swap: 9760764 total, 8489832 used, 1270932 free. 139944 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 30731 root 20 0 76676 1880 840 S 6.6 0.0 399:25.52 cups-brows+ 10401 root 20 0 278536 19896 5396 S 3.7 0.5 372:56.88 Xorg 18022 root 20 0 85228 3072 904 S 3.0 0.1 91:17.50 cupsd 11059 jdg 20 0 582780 9336 4248 S 1.3 0.2 0:59.45 xfce4-term+ 10608 jdg 20 0 2560556 1.142g 12604 D 0.7 30.2 32:22.83 xfsettingsd 39 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0.3 0.0 12:04.63 kswapd0 5204 postgres 20 0 221736 1168 804 S 0.3 0.0 4:08.56 postgres 5703 root 20 0 4208 128 108 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.29 minissdpd 10607 jdg 20 0 535372 8720 4216 S 0.3 0.2 0:38.58 xfce4-panel 10655 jdg 20 0 181124 3416 2416 S 0.3 0.1 10:50.06 panel-15-c+ Interestingly, xfsettingsd was also gobbling memory; I don't know whether that's part of the same bug, with one causing the other, or whether it's an unrelated bug. Next step: back to xfce4-volumed and remove pulseaudio. Julian -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607474 Title: xfce4-volumed using too much RAM To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed/+bug/607474/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
