I have 18 instances of Firefox running. All with multiple tabs for
different projects. I use top a lot, but only with defaults and don't
see from the manpage how to sort by RSS. Here is a 'simple' copy of top:
Tasks: 266 total, 2 running, 264 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 17.4 us, 9.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 72.0 id, 0.0 wa, 1.2 hi, 0.2 si,
0.0 st
MiB Mem : 7207.7 total, 678.7 free, 6235.8 used, 293.1 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 23591.0 total, 17723.1 free, 5867.9 used. 680.5 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
311428 rgm 20 0 4472108 282892 52312 S 32.3 3.8 83:11.00
GeckoMain
318444 rgm 20 0 2484192 42284 31188 S 11.6 0.6 4:15.29
Isolated Web +
995 root 20 0 978020 47764 17620 R 10.2 0.6 930:38.94
Xorg
1561 rgm 20 0 193304 16100 2216 S 8.3 0.2 1072:30
pipewire-pulse
124 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 4.6 0.0 201:38.20
kswapd0
1559 rgm 20 0 131104 4572 2312 S 4.6 0.1 590:18.02
pipewire
311165 rgm 20 0 4433824 204088 30632 S 4.6 2.8 20:55.96
thunderbird
1359 rgm 20 0 1223972 16700 9748 S 4.0 0.2 75:50.16
xfwm4
315376 rgm 20 0 2732856 133556 27256 S 4.0 1.8 6:08.20
Isolated Web +
38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 3.6 0.0 62:49.14
kcompactd0
312140 rgm 20 0 2488436 19196 13760 S 2.6 0.3 6:47.73
Isolated Web +
311727 rgm 20 0 2567436 74584 13952 S 2.3 1.0 7:45.49
Isolated Web +
316664 rgm 20 0 2696948 64788 15756 S 1.7 0.9 1:52.87
Isolated Web +
311949 rgm 20 0 2794036 86796 18400 S 1.3 1.2 4:34.23
Isolated Web +
313216 rgm 20 0 2708484 77072 16160 S 1.3 1.0 7:06.57
Isolated Web +
318480 rgm 20 0 2633452 19660 14432 S 1.3 0.3 0:34.27
Isolated Web +
319746 rgm 20 0 10612 4196 3324 R 1.3 0.1 0:00.11 top
In a couple days, I will see the swap usage grow. Until I Quit firefox,
then restart with all the old windows opening.
But I really never exit Firefox unless forced to.
On 1/11/22 16:33, John Mellor wrote:
What on earth are you doing in Firefox and Thunderbird to use that
swap? I have multiple 8GB machines running the same Fedora, Firefox
and Thunderbird, and virtually never get into swap at all. Two the
these machines are also Lenovo. This makes no sense, so there must be
something else hogging all that memory. Do a top and sort by RSS and
see what the real problem app is.
--
John Mellor
On 2022-01-11 12:30 p.m., Robert Moskowitz wrote:
The specs for my Lenovo x140e is 8GB, which I have and it seems to be
not enough.
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 7380668 6930852 262676 1492 187140
221144
Swap: 24157176 12044096 12113080
Firefox seems to be a bit part of the problem. I quit it and see:
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 7380668 5146100 1776840 1364 457728
1948864
Swap: 24157176 5270956 18886220
I am running a VM at 2Gb and a couple of Thunderbird sessions.
Closing these TB and waiting a while I drop down to
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 7380668 3751784 1148396 16228 2480488
3272716
Swap: 24157176 2422956 21734220
but really the bottom line is I need more memory for the tasks at
hand. Firefox has all these weird processes running eating up lots
of memory and swapping like crazy. Probably bad for my SSD drive.
So how to get to 16GB memory?
What follows the x140e in the 12" format? I can't figure this out
from basic Lenovo sales stuff. Probably going to have to find a
Lenovo forum to get the info.
But CompuRAM in UK says they can support up to 32GB on the x140e
using "newer SO-DIMM chips". Crucial only sells 4GB for the x140e.
Anyone have any knowledge on this? Other than booting and getting
into settings, how do I figure out my bios version? And to see if
Lenovo has a newer one that probably CompuRAM is counting on?
Any US memory sources that will support more memory for the x140e? I
really don't want to deal with overseas shipping and support.
And back to the "newer" hardware question on 140 followon.
thanks for any input. All this swapping is taking time when I really
have to wait for the system to bring in what is needed and things to
start working.
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