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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] arts using a LOT of memory, why?
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:47:50
Message-Id: 43BC79C3.9040904@exceedtech.net
1 Hi,
2
3 I noticed today that arts is using a LOT of memory. It didn't use to do
4 this. This is from top:
5
6 > top - 19:38:34 up 2 days, 15:24, 3 users, load average: 1.03, 1.03, 1.00
7 > Tasks: 101 total, 3 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
8 > Cpu(s): 2.7% us, 0.3% sy, 95.3% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 1.7% hi,
9 > 0.0% si
10 > Mem: 1034576k total, 925172k used, 109404k free, 94220k buffers
11 > Swap: 488336k total, 184k used, 488152k free, 276512k cached
12 >
13 > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
14 > 25376 dale -51 0 139m 135m 5536 S 0.0 13.4 0:11.48 artsd
15 > 25388 dale -51 0 139m 135m 5536 S 0.0 13.4 0:00.10 artsd
16 > 16972 root 34 19 121m 101m 1052 S 0.0 10.1 0:01.29
17 > FahCore_78.exe
18 > 16973 root 34 19 121m 101m 1052 S 0.0 10.1 0:00.01
19 > FahCore_78.exe
20 > 16974 root 39 19 121m 101m 1052 R 97.2 10.1 3134:16
21 > FahCore_78.exe
22 > 16975 root 34 19 121m 101m 1052 S 0.0 10.1 0:00.00
23 > FahCore_78.exe
24 > 24658 root 15 0 212m 82m 4584 S 1.7 8.1 21:07.32 X
25 > 6060 dale 15 0 86852 66m 21m S 0.3 6.6 3:08.87 mozilla-bin
26 > 6064 dale 16 0 86852 66m 21m S 0.0 6.6 0:00.00 mozilla-bin
27 > 6065 dale 15 0 86852 66m 21m S 0.0 6.6 0:00.05 mozilla-bin
28 > 6066 dale 15 0 86852 66m 21m S 0.0 6.6 0:00.97 mozilla-bin
29 > 20691 dale 15 0 86852 66m 21m S 0.0 6.6 0:00.00 mozilla-bin
30
31
32 I think over 100MBs is a bit much. Anybody else noticing this? Any
33 idea why it may be doing this? It only does it when I have been logged
34 in for a while. It goes back to normal after I log out and back in
35 again. I'm using KDE 3.5.
36
37 Any ideas. Oh, #1 in my sig by the way.
38
39 Dale
40 :-)
41
42 --
43 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
44
45 I have four rigs:
46
47 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
48 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
49 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
50 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput
51
52 All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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