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From: Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:32:40
Message-Id: 200610061822.19681.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM... by "b.n."
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4 Alle 14:41, venerdì 6 ottobre 2006, b.n. ha scritto:
5 > ciao,
6 >
7 > Luigi Pinna ha scritto:
8 > > I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know
9 > > I can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap.
10 >
11 > - fire up a shell
12 > - enter 'top'
13 > - digit Shift+M to order processes for RAM consumption (memory-eating
14 > processes are on top of list)
15 > - wait
16 > - tell us what the bad process is
17 >
18 > m.
19
20 from top:
21 Tasks: 115 total, 1 running, 114 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
22 Cpu(s): 8.0% us, 2.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 88.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi,
23 0.3% si
24 Mem: 1026588k total, 1016520k used, 10068k free, 9604k buffers
25 Swap: 1301960k total, 822784k used, 479176k free, 230168k cached
26
27 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28 2919 root 15 0 1267m 489m 4204 S 4.3 48.8 9:15.23 X
29 [...]
30
31 Unfortunately, the problem is the main X process...
32 How can I isolate the problem?
33 Thanks,
34 Luigi
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM... Mauro Faccenda <faccenda@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM... Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>