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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: swap usage creeping up
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:49:16
Message-Id: ib11us$bq8$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up by Iain Buchanan
1 On 11/04/2010 11:45 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2 > OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap
3 > usage is up again. It's firefox:
4 >
5 > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6 > 14072 iain 20 0 1369m 897m 15m S 3 29.5 113:14.91 firefox
7 >
8 > I think that's 1.3Gb + 900Mb... sounds like a memory leak to me.
9 >
10 > Anyone else run firefox for 113+ hours? I'm using 3.6.9-r1.
11
12 firefox is up to 3.6.12 now, with several important bug fixes, so I'd
13 suggest updating it.