On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:57:35 -0700 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Fedorans, > > My workstation has been paging a lot lately. It's a fairly high-end > system, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz (overclocked, originally it was > 3.0 GHz) and 2x2GB Corsair RAMs. > > lshw output: > *-memory > description: System Memory > physical id: 19 > slot: System board or motherboard > size: 4GiB > *-bank:0 > description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns) > physical id: 0 > slot: A0 > size: 2GiB > width: 64 bits > clock: 800MHz (1.2ns) > *-bank:2 > description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns) > physical id: 2 > slot: A2 > size: 2GiB > width: 64 bits > clock: 800MHz (1.2ns) > > and my swap is 6 Gigs. > > $ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3961 3772 188 0 328 1129 > -/+ buffers/cache: 2315 1645 > Swap: 6143 153 5990 > > > I used to be able to have uptimes of the order of a month without ever > using a single Kb of my swap. But lately I start paging from a few Mb to > several hundred Mb after about half a week. Whenever this happens, I > find multitasking becomes impossible, e.g. opening a pdf interferes with > music or video playback. > > I noticed a weak pattern, usually when I find my workstation is paging I > have a few pdfs open. Lately I have been working with a lot of pdfs and > most of these pdfs are about thousand page long documents (but only ~ > 20-30 Mb in file size). I keep these open for reference as I work on my > thesis. However closing evince doesn't help reduce the swap usage (at > least not within the next 15-20 minutes). > > Apart from these symptoms I also find my system has become generally > slow. Even opening the terminal or thunar (the XFCE file browser) takes > a few seconds. I am on 2.6.34.8-68.fc13.x86_64. Does any one have any > culprits in mind? > There were memory leaks in evince, I don't know if they got fixed. One problem I saw was, if you zoomed in then out then in, the memory foot print would increase. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
