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On 04/08/2017 11:55:29 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 08/04/2017 21:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > since a few days my system eats up memory, uses SWAP space and gets |
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> slow. |
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> > It might depend on xorg-server, but I don't know why. |
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> > |
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> > On a nearly idle system (except xorg-server and some XTerms) I have |
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> > MEM | tot 7.5G | free 2.9G | cache 1.2G | buff 114.6M |
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> | |
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> > slab 498.0M | shmem 848.3M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M |
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> > |
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> > (My system has 8G memory installed) |
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> > |
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> > Adding up all terms except 'tot' I get 5.6G where are the remaining |
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> 2G? |
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> > And why is shmem 0.85G - I have even seen a value of 4G for shmem |
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> > although all tempfs filesystems |
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> > were nearly empty. |
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> Lots of things use shared memory. All you know here is that something |
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> is |
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> using lots of it |
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> You haven't done much useful to track it down. Find the process that |
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> is |
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> really using memory. A very quick easy first step is to run top and |
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> sort |
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> on the memory columns (just take the left-most memory-related column |
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> with a big bag of salt, it doesn't show what people usually think). |
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> Then |
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> correlate that with packages you recently updated. |
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Thanks Alan. |
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I think my problem is a bit more complicated. |
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I did try to identify a process which eats my memory, but I couldn't |
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find one. |
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I have written a small Python program which does something similar to |
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htop / atop |
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which I've used before. |
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And here is what I get (I have summed up all 'visible' memory that top |
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would have shown) |
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And please, compare this to what I see as memory usage. |
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X memory usage: 548367360 swap 0 |
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colord memory usage: 69735424 swap 0 |
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python memory usage: 16473088 swap 0 |
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python3 memory usage: 15261696 swap 0 |
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nedit memory usage: 12661760 swap 0 |
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atop memory usage: 10737664 swap 0 |
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cupsd memory usage: 10657792 swap 0 |
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icewm memory usage: 10000384 swap 0 |
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nedit memory usage: 9300992 swap 0 |
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gconfd-2 memory usage: 8031232 swap 0 |
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xterm memory usage: 7298048 swap 0 |
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xterm memory usage: 6979584 swap 0 |
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xterm memory usage: 6731776 swap 0 |
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polkitd memory usage: 5476352 swap 0 |
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xterm memory usage: 4276224 swap 0 |
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systemd-udevd memory usage: 3397632 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 3300352 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 3064832 swap 0 |
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xterm memory usage: 2962432 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 2939904 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 2852864 swap 0 |
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syslog-ng memory usage: 2841600 swap 0 |
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xterm memory usage: 2834432 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 2819072 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 2812928 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 2799616 swap 0 |
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zsh memory usage: 2798592 swap 0 |
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icewmtray memory usage: 2284544 swap 0 |
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icewmbg memory usage: 2159616 swap 0 |
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upowerd memory usage: 1927168 swap 0 |
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xless memory usage: 1859584 swap 0 |
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at-spi2-registryd memory usage: 1820672 swap 0 |
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xless memory usage: 1741824 swap 0 |
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gvfsd-fuse memory usage: 1623040 swap 0 |
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gvfsd memory usage: 1613824 swap 0 |
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at-spi-bus-launcher memory usage: 1581056 swap 0 |
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login memory usage: 1528832 swap 0 |
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console-kit-daemon memory usage: 1523712 swap 0 |
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dbus-daemon memory usage: 1434624 swap 0 |
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su memory usage: 1292288 swap 0 |
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su memory usage: 1292288 swap 0 |
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dbus-launch memory usage: 1124352 swap 0 |
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dconf-service memory usage: 1123328 swap 0 |
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dbus-daemon memory usage: 1037312 swap 0 |
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xfconfd memory usage: 1034240 swap 0 |
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sshd memory usage: 998400 swap 0 |
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dbus-daemon memory usage: 823296 swap 0 |
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vsftpd memory usage: 717824 swap 0 |
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startx memory usage: 651264 swap 0 |
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sh memory usage: 650240 swap 0 |
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xinit memory usage: 611328 swap 0 |
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fcron memory usage: 599040 swap 0 |
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syslog-ng memory usage: 589824 swap 0 |
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pland memory usage: 538624 swap 0 |
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atd memory usage: 462848 swap 0 |
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agetty memory usage: 364544 swap 0 |
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agetty memory usage: 362496 swap 0 |
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agetty memory usage: 361472 swap 0 |
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agetty memory usage: 356352 swap 0 |
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agetty memory usage: 353280 swap 0 |
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dpid memory usage: 327680 swap 0 |
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init memory usage: 284672 swap 0 |
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Total memory {Mb]: 776.73828125 i.e. ONLY 0.776 Gb |
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BUT the system is swapping : |
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MEM | tot 7.5G | free 59.2M | cache 3.8G | buff 170.1M | |
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slab 477.1M | shmem 3.7G | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M | |
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SWP | tot 4.0G | free 1.9G | | |
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| | | vmcom 6.5G | vmlim 7.8G | |
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just after starting X11 I have |
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free -m |
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total used free shared buff/cache |
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available |
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Mem: 7718 149 7252 0 |
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316 7472 |
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Swap: 4095 1 4094 |
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