On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote:
> On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote:
> >> Fred,
> >>
> >> Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet
> >> consumes the following:
> >>
> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> >> 4133 me 15 0 29568 3748 2944 S 0.0 0.2 190:51.33 clock-applet
> >>
> >> My uptime at the moment is coming on 68 days. Over time the %CPU field
> >> may flicker up to 0.3 or even 0.7, but the RES column and others are
> >> steady at the numbers you see. I should add that all Preferences which
> >> we'd expect to consume more resources (e.g., display seconds, 12-hour
> >> time) are on.
> >>
> >> Do you use evolution?
> >
> > no, I have never found it to my liking.
> >
> >>
> >> KDE, Gnome, or other WM?
> >
> > gnome.
>
> I don't know what to tell you then because, like you, I use gnome but
> not evolution. So our systems-- what of them which are directly related
> to clock-applet-- are much the same, yet you have a memory problem with
> clock-applet which I don't.
here's what top reports today (clock-applet has not been restarted since
the event mentioned in my original posting):
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11159 fredex 16 0 263m 149m 10m S 0.3 3.8 1:36.87 clock-applet
in which I note it is now up to "149m".
>
> Here are some items to compare:
>
> # rpm -q gnome-panel
> gnome-panel-2.16.1-7.el5
> # ll /usr/libexec/clock-applet
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88048 May 24 2008 /usr/libexec/clock-applet
> # md5sum /usr/libexec/clock-applet
> 9d21ca21a0e99ad26aa10e1cd5b42024 /usr/libexec/clock-applet
>
# rpm -q gnome-panel
gnome-panel-2.16.1-7.el5
# ll /usr/libexec/clock-applet
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88048 May 24 2008 /usr/libexec/clock-applet
# md5sum /usr/libexec/clock-applet
2bc9a73a5251d1b4747ec133839412b7 /usr/libexec/clock-applet
it's the same version and size as yours, but the md5sum differs. have
you perhaps disabled prelink? (I don't call that I have ever done so)
It's not obvious to me what other (legitimate) event would account for
the difference in checksum.
If I run:
rpm -V -v gnome-panel
it shows no differences at all, so I don't think the clock-applet has
been damaged or hacked. (but I wonder what it shows on your system, since
yours has a different md5sum.)
........ /usr/libexec/clock-applet
>
>
>
> >> On 01/04/2013 05:11 PM fred smith wrote:
> >>> I've discovered recently that something on my Centos 5.8 box (up to date)
> >>> is hogging a ton of RAM.
> >>>
> >>> so a little while ago I sat and watched top for a while. it showed
> >>> (sorry, I didn't take screen shots or write this down, so the numbers
> >>> are a bit rough) that out of 8 gigs of swap, around 2 1/2 was in use,
> >>> and all the RAM (except for the little the kernel keeps for itself)
> >>> was in use (it's got 4 gigs).
> >>>
> >>> this might not sound bad, but there's hardly ever anything big running
> >>> on this box, it's just my home desktop machine used mostly for web
> >>> browsing/music/email and similar.
> >>>
> >>> so, watching top run for a while I could eventually make out that
> >>> something had "1.6g" flashing in the "RES" column. slowing the refresh
> >>> a little I saw that it was "clock applet". so I killed the clock applet
> >>> and restarted it, then clock applet showed "11m" in the "RES" column,
> >>> and the unused RAM was suddenly like a gig and 3/4, or so, and the
> >>> swap used slowly started dropping while the free ram began being used up,
> >>> as it normally should.
> >>>
> >>> as I continue to watch it run (10-15 mins later) I can see that clock
> >>> applet is now showing 14m in the RES column, so it's still growing.
> >>>
> >>> Is anyone else seeing the clock applet hogging (tons of tiny leaks, I
> >>> assume) RAM needlessly?
> >>>
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