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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:51:49
Message-Id: 1288072147.8318.56.camel@localhost
1 Hi,
2
3 over the last week or so I've noticed unusually large swap usage. I
4 usually hibernate this laptop and have uptimes up to 12 days so apps can
5 run for a long time. I don't usually use any swap space (except for a
6 few k).
7
8 If I swapoff and swapon, the usage falls back to zero but then creeps up
9 again over a few days.
10
11 $ free -m
12 total used free shared buffers cached
13 Mem: 3040 859 2181 0 38 415
14 -/+ buffers/cache: 406 2634
15 Swap: 494 431 62
16
17 nothing unusual there, except for the swap usage itself. 'top' doesn't
18 show any large apps. sorted by mem the top 4 are:
19 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20 8318 iain 20 0 494m 150m 21m S 0 5.0 1:20.67 evolution
21 20424 iain 20 0 342m 77m 30m S 0 2.5 0:01.84 firefox
22 8009 root 20 0 83364 37m 6260 S 7 1.2 38:34.31 X
23 8090 iain 20 0 159m 32m 1600 S 1 1.1 3:48.08 skype
24
25 Hm, I just noticed Mem is in %. % of what? % total or % used? Even if
26 it was % of total RAM that could be as much as 152Mb for evo and 76Mb
27 for firefox. Not that much really.
28
29 any ideas?
30
31 thanks :)
32 --
33 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
34
35 Chuck Norris once skewered a man with the Eiffel tower.

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Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up "Fatih Tümen" <fthtmn+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: swap usage creeping up James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>