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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:34:26
Message-Id: 200610062228.47818.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM... by Luigi Pinna
1 On Friday 06 October 2006 17:22, Luigi Pinna wrote:
2 > gpgkeys: key 1E69248E633F86B7 not found on keyserver
3 >
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
34 Perhaps http://www.gnome.org/projects/memprof/ is what you're looking for?
35 --
36 Regards,
37 Mick