[Novalug] Do I have a memory leak??
Beartooth
beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Sat Sep 27 12:53:43 EDT 2008
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Tux Subscriber Dave Aronson wrote:
> Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote: Top or ps or any
> number of other "show me what's running" commands should tell
> you what percent of your memory is being gobbled up by each
> process. I don't recall the exact magical incantation is for
> ps (man is your best friend -- does that mean you're a dog?),
> but "top" clearly labels one column "%MEM" or something like
> that.
top last night, followed iirc by M, got this :
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top - 16:25:29 up 6 days, 2:02, 3 users, load average: 0.62,
0.32, 0.20
Tasks: 145 total, 2 running, 143 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0
zombie
Cpu(s): 9.3%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2042488k total, 969580k used, 1072908k free, 93040k
buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 710936k used, 1320672k free, 281832k
cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
21988 btth 20 0 916m 399m 21m R 5.3 20.0 8:51.74
firefox
3100 btth 20 0 112m 26m 13m S 0.0 1.3 0:42.05
nautilus
2584 root 20 0 93412 25m 5912 S 3.0 1.3 1145:02 Xorg
3143 btth 20 0 49268 11m 1664 S 0.0 0.6 0:59.06
gvfsd-trash
3102 btth 20 0 72540 8964 4036 S 0.0 0.4 1:04.14
gnome-panel
20092 btth 20 0 215m 8664 2620 S 0.0 0.4 0:32.35
galeon
3278 btth 20 0 60464 8168 5676 S 0.0 0.4 0:40.97
trashapplet
16351 btth 20 0 211m 6680 2904 S 0.0 0.3 1:19.74
epiphany
3108 btth 20 0 68948 6644 4292 S 2.3 0.3 0:11.76
gnome-terminal
3157 btth 20 0 57200 6608 4076 S 0.0 0.3 0:32.15
wnck-applet
3195 btth 20 0 37952 5692 4052 S 0.0 0.3 0:22.66
clock-applet
3098 btth 20 0 25372 5324 4116 S 0.0 0.3 0:17.76
metacity
3198 btth 20 0 96560 5148 2676 S 0.0 0.3 0:12.74
python
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The same thing this morning gets this :
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[btth@hbsk ~]$ top
top - 12:34:14 up 6 days, 22:11, 4 users, load average: 0.10,
0.14, 0.10
Tasks: 149 total, 3 running, 146 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0
zombie
Cpu(s): 8.6%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2042488k total, 1500536k used, 541952k free, 191276k
buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 710420k used, 1321188k free, 539980k
cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
21988 btth 20 0 938m 430m 21m S 5.6 21.6 74:27.54
firefox
28222 btth 20 0 387m 92m 16m S 0.7 4.6 0:29.12
opera
2584 root 20 0 95928 29m 7172 S 4.3 1.5 1295:28 Xorg
3100 btth 20 0 112m 26m 13m S 0.0 1.3 0:43.83
nautilus
28722 btth 39 19 71020 17m 9004 R 1.0 0.9 0:02.92
operapluginwrap
3143 btth 20 0 49268 11m 1664 S 0.0 0.6 0:59.06
gvfsd-trash
3102 btth 20 0 72540 9568 4316 S 0.0 0.5 1:09.69
gnome-panel
20092 btth 20 0 215m 8988 2620 S 0.0 0.4 0:36.71
galeon
3108 btth 20 0 69276 8980 5788 R 0.3 0.4 0:25.94
gnome-terminal
3278 btth 20 0 60464 8168 5676 S 0.0 0.4 0:40.98
trashapplet
3157 btth 20 0 57524 7688 4632 S 0.0 0.4 0:33.99
wnck-applet
3164 btth 20 0 30972 7480 4608 S 0.7 0.4 41:36.60
multiload-apple
16351 btth 20 0 211m 7160 2908 S 0.0 0.4 1:26.17
epiphany
3125 btth 20 0 40744 5948 4212 S 0.0 0.3 0:02.47
gpk-update-icon
3195 btth 20 0 37952 5700 4056 S 0.0 0.3 0:25.59
clock-applet
3098 btth 20 0 25372 5384 4156 S 0.0 0.3 0:20.55
metacity
3198 btth 20 0 96560 5300 2772 S 0.0 0.3 0:14.07
python
3101 btth 20 0 20232 4184 3132 S 0.0 0.2 0:49.22
gnome-screensav
3281 btth 20 0 28392 3756 3052 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.30
notification-ar
1914 root RT 0 3388 3388 2692 S 0.0 0.2 0:07.00
multipathd
[btth@hbsk ~]$
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I see firefox, opera, xorg, nautilus, and gvfsd-trash at
or near the top consistently. (I've been having similar problems
with firefox in especial, and am in process of uninstalling
extensions hand over fist; but this machine is one on which I've
alrady pruned it with machetes in both hands.)
I tried once to google out something comprehensible about
gvfsd, but found only enough to conclude it might cause even more
trouble to get rid of it that it causes by being there.
The others make, I suppose, some sort of sense. I have
two dozen tabs and three dozen on firefox open, plus only two on
galeon and one on epiphany (both of which usuall have triple to
quintuple that) -- and Pan isn't even runninng ....
--
Beartooth of Bear's End, Squirreler, Historian of Tongues
What do they know of country, who only country know?
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