Investigating why my computer had suddenly become very s.l.o.w, I noticed that virtual memory usage had become very large. Following is an extract from a "$ ps axuw" for the system sorted according to VM usage, the top 20 processes in VM usage. Does anyone know why evolution + evolution evolution-data-server use not quite 2 GBytes? Or why the ordinary applets use together 1.4 GBytes? Or why sealert uses about 0.5 GBytes? Or anything else on this list? PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND 2656 1.2 5.2 1668576 53708 ? Sl 12:20 1:26 evolution 2662 0.0 0.2 444628 2680 ? S 12:20 0:00 /usr/bin/python -E /usr/bin/sealert -s 2611 0.0 0.5 381732 6132 ? S 12:20 0:02 nautilus --no-desktop --browser 2660 3.4 2.4 354252 25396 ? Sl 12:20 3:51 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/firefox 2887 0.0 0.2 339324 2280 ? Sl 12:21 0:00 /usr/libexec/evolution/2.24/evolution-alarm-notify ... 2642 0.0 0.5 331800 6080 ? Sl 12:20 0:02 gnome-terminal --geometry=90x30 1918 0.0 0.2 327812 2388 ? Ssl 12:09 0:02 /usr/bin/python -E /usr/sbin/setroubleshootd 2929 0.0 0.2 320556 2672 ? Sl 12:22 0:01 mono /usr/lib64/tomboy/Tomboy.exe --panel-applet ... 2827 0.0 0.2 313216 2804 ? Sl 12:21 0:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server-2.24 ... 2909 0.0 0.3 288000 3708 ? S 12:21 0:00 /usr/libexec/clock-applet ... 2922 0.0 0.2 287036 2812 ? Sl 12:22 0:00 /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 ... 2600 0.0 0.2 281228 3000 ? Ssl 12:20 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon 3769 0.0 0.3 276596 3604 ? S 12:31 0:00 /usr/libexec/notification-daemon 2665 0.0 0.3 262356 3392 ? S 12:20 0:00 mail-notification --sm-disable 2768 0.0 0.6 257552 6368 ? S 12:21 0:05 /usr/libexec/wnck-applet ... 2608 0.0 0.5 256040 5848 ? S 12:20 0:02 gnome-panel 5596 9.1 0.9 254712 9548 ? Sl 14:04 0:54 gnome-system-monitor 2673 0.0 0.2 241080 2680 ? S 12:20 0:00 gnome-power-manager 2776 0.0 0.3 240844 3544 ? S 12:21 0:00 /usr/libexec/trashapplet ... 2609 0.1 0.1 237652 1660 ? Ss 12:20 0:12 gnome-screensaver For an old-line embedded systems programmer, who used to think in terms of KBytes, this looks a little excessive. Thanks - jon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
