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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Something eats my memory - please help
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:33:30
Message-Id: QZBJICYR.RXFHV43Y.6V5CRDXU@HM6SONWE.NWUFGTZA.LXMD6NCI
1 Hi,
2
3 since a few days my system eats up memory, uses SWAP space and gets
4 slow.
5 It might depend on xorg-server, but I don't know why.
6
7 On a nearly idle system (except xorg-server and some XTerms) I have
8 MEM | tot 7.5G | free 2.9G | cache 1.2G | buff 114.6M |
9 slab 498.0M | shmem 848.3M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M
10
11 (My system has 8G memory installed)
12
13 Adding up all terms except 'tot' I get 5.6G where are the remaining 2G?
14 And why is shmem 0.85G - I have even seen a value of 4G for shmem
15 although all tempfs filesystems
16 were nearly empty.
17
18 When I stop the X-server I get
19
20 MEM | tot 7.5G | free 6.9G | cache 387.4M | buff 118.4M |
21 slab 72.0M | shmem 1.4M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M |
22
23
24 I haven't seen this in the last 10 years!
25
26 I'm running kernel 4.11.0-rc5 but I doubt it has to do with the kernel
27 since the values without a running xorg-server are for the same
28 kernel.
29
30 Has anybody seen something similar?
31
32 Many thanks for a hint,
33 Helmut

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Re: [gentoo-user] Something eats my memory - please help Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Something eats my memory - please help Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
[gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>