On 30/12/05, Douglas Phillipson <phillipd(a)oem.doe.gov> wrote:
Running FC4 kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp. I seem to accumulate a
large
amount of swap over time. (A few days. I'm not running any unusual
apps. My memory stastics (xosview) says I have gobs of free memory but
after a while, even with a gig or more of free RAM my swap goes up to
several hundred megabytes and things slow way down. The disk swaps
madly and then backs off for a while. It seems to be cyclic in nature
but the swap never goes away until a reboot. At all times I have in
excess of a gig of free RAM. The only apps I'm running are Firefox,
Thunderbird, openoffice 2.0, perhaps a music player on this machine
under KDE 3.5.0.
Run top in a terminal and then type 'M' (that's a shift-m) to order
the processes by memory usage. Should give you an idea of what's
going on.
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Kind regards,
John Francis