On Saturday, November 13, 2010 01:10:18 Rex Dieter wrote:
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
>
> 2528 vmarko 20 0 2029m 171m 19m S 1.3 8.6 564:19.55 firefox
> 2397 vmarko 20 0 366m 148m 7460 S 1.3 7.4 230:40.39 skype
> 2366 vmarko 20 0 565m 92m 3044 S 0.0 4.6 12:10.68 emerald
Looks like the top 3 aren't kde applications. Try quiting/restarting
these?
Sorry for the delay, I wasn't around yesterday... :-)
Ok, so I exited from firefox, skype and emerald (replaced it with
default kde4-window-decorator). The swap usage dropped halfway, from 1 GB to
0.5 GB. Some memory also got released. This is the new top output:
top - 21:27:10 up 12 days, 4:21, 4 users, load average: 0.21, 0.25, 0.31
Tasks: 184 total, 1 running, 183 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.7%us, 11.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 75.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2048088k total, 1845144k used, 202944k free, 33668k buffers
Swap: 4192956k total, 537340k used, 3655616k free, 1093460k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15276 vmarko 20 0 624m 81m 23m S 0.0 4.1 0:18.03 okular
1739 root 20 0 472m 77m 25m S 20.9 3.9 4700:18 X
2021 vmarko 20 0 1396m 69m 9760 S 5.3 3.5 910:19.04 ktorrent
9797 vmarko 20 0 810m 59m 21m S 0.0 3.0 0:51.88 kmail
15242 vmarko 20 0 543m 58m 23m S 0.0 2.9 0:04.16 kile
2222 vmarko 20 0 727m 24m 12m S 0.0 1.2 13:53.29 cairo-dock
1998 vmarko 20 0 938m 22m 10m S 5.0 1.1 958:46.41 plasma-desktop
15152 vmarko 20 0 676m 21m 13m S 0.0 1.1 0:14.63 kde4-window-dec
15170 vmarko 20 0 420m 19m 12m S 0.7 1.0 0:03.23 konsole
2053 vmarko 9 -11 565m 18m 16m S 6.0 0.9 297:56.92 pulseaudio
2022 vmarko 20 0 420m 11m 7744 S 0.0 0.6 0:02.00 fusion-icon
2346 vmarko 20 0 188m 9.9m 3024 S 1.7 0.5 198:32.22 compiz
15525 vmarko 20 0 271m 8512 6000 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.07 kio_http
The system regained some responsiveness, but still appears mainly sluggish.
The problem isn't the actual load, but the fact that memory consumption
increases without bound over time. I'll try to use Konqueror for a day instead
of Firefox, and I'll try to refrain from keeping skype and emerald running. If
the swap usage keeps increasing, the culprit is somewhere else... I'll wait
and see.
Best, :-)
Marko