On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:47:24 -0500 Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Hi Suvayu, I agree that epdfview is not something that has a lot of features, but I have found it to be very lightweight and reasonably good for my needs. You could try that instead of evince: of course, it is not clear if that is causing or will solve your problem. Hope this helps! Good luck with your dissertation! Ranjan -- 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
