On 01/03/2012 01:32 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> I installed F16 on a new machine, trying to keep the installation
> more or less lean. Meaning - not installing tons of packages w/o
> thinking and ending up with tons of installed stuff I don't even know
> what it is.
>
> Today, I'm looking at my process list, sorted by amount of dirtied pages
> (which very closely matches amount of malloced and used space - that is,
> malloced, but not-written to memory areas are not included).
> This is the most expensive type of pages, they can't be discarded.
> If we would be in memory squeeze, kernel will have to swap them out,
> if swap exists, otherwise kernel can't do anything at all.
>
> And this is what I see (DIRTY column):
>
> PID VSZ VSZRW RSS (SHR) DIRTY^(SHR) STACK COMMAND
> 1974 593m 392m 233m 14900 200m 64 208 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
> 2030 589m 393m 188m 16568 156m 684 344 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
> 1375 27976 14100 14288 5752 9912 3896 132 /usr/bin/Xorg
> 1888 71748 55152 14056 4268 9536 0 132 /usr/libexec/tracker-store
> 1953 145m 44672 17588 6812 8880 88 132 /usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-mixer-plugin
> 2057 167m 9036 18944 10124 8236 280 204 xchat
> 4292 15728 8344 10236 1440 7848 0 132 /usr/bin/mc -u -d -C
> 1892 36464 7608 16396 7116 7296 0 136 {applet.py} /usr/bin/python /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py
> 1874 48464 27060 12408 5568 6180 0 132 /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
> 1941 107m 13872 14784 8968 5620 768 132 Terminal
> 1901 44748 26400 10872 5012 5560 0 132 /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-flickr
> ...
>
> thunderbird, firefox, xorg are the largest ones, but this
> is not a surprise.
>
> Whoops. What is tracker-store? I don't even know what's that
> and why is it running, and it's eating ~10 mbytes in DIRTY.
> Hmm. There are more of those things - tracker-miner-fs,
> tracker-miner-flickr. There go another 12 megs...
> And - flickr??
> I did not ask anything flickr-related to be *run* on my machine!
Just a comment on the accuracy of the numbers.
# ps_mem.py¹ | grep tracker
3.2 MiB + 730.5 KiB = 3.9 MiB tracker-miner-fs
3.9 MiB + 722.5 KiB = 4.6 MiB tracker-miner-flickr
5.5 MiB + 549.0 KiB = 6.0 MiB tracker-store
I've attached the complete output from my newly installed F16 laptop,
which shows around 300MiB of RAM being used in total.
cheers,
Pádraig.
¹ http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
116.0 KiB + 17.0 KiB = 133.0 KiB system-setup-keyboard [updated]
128.0 KiB + 22.0 KiB = 150.0 KiB gnome-pty-helper.#prelink#.Lnb918 [deleted]
152.0 KiB + 16.5 KiB = 168.5 KiB fcoemon [updated]
196.0 KiB + 21.5 KiB = 217.5 KiB mcelog [updated]
180.0 KiB + 39.0 KiB = 219.0 KiB atd
240.0 KiB + 27.0 KiB = 267.0 KiB audispd
228.0 KiB + 44.5 KiB = 272.5 KiB systemd-stdout-syslog-bridge [updated]
204.0 KiB + 72.0 KiB = 276.0 KiB abrtd [updated]
228.0 KiB + 48.0 KiB = 276.0 KiB sedispatch [updated]
252.0 KiB + 49.0 KiB = 301.0 KiB syndaemon [updated]
240.0 KiB + 63.5 KiB = 303.5 KiB abrt-dump-oops [updated]
264.0 KiB + 41.0 KiB = 305.0 KiB rtkit-daemon [updated]
272.0 KiB + 33.5 KiB = 305.5 KiB dbus-launch [updated]
344.0 KiB + 43.5 KiB = 387.5 KiB auditd
448.0 KiB + 66.0 KiB = 514.0 KiB systemd-logind [updated]
436.0 KiB + 81.5 KiB = 517.5 KiB lldpad
452.0 KiB + 72.5 KiB = 524.5 KiB gdm-binary [updated]
476.0 KiB + 97.5 KiB = 573.5 KiB gvfsd [updated]
512.0 KiB + 89.0 KiB = 601.0 KiB dconf-service [updated]
516.0 KiB + 140.5 KiB = 656.5 KiB gvfs-afc-volume-monitor [updated]
568.0 KiB + 152.5 KiB = 720.5 KiB gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor [updated]
532.0 KiB + 189.0 KiB = 721.0 KiB gconf-helper [updated]
516.0 KiB + 240.0 KiB = 756.0 KiB avahi-daemon [updated] (2)
828.0 KiB + 61.5 KiB = 889.5 KiB bluetoothd
816.0 KiB + 173.0 KiB = 989.0 KiB accounts-daemon [updated]
880.0 KiB + 229.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB imsettings-daemon [updated]
928.0 KiB + 201.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB deja-dup-monitor [updated]
972.0 KiB + 210.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB upowerd [updated]
1.1 MiB + 119.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB modem-manager [updated]
940.0 KiB + 275.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB wpa_supplicant [updated]
916.0 KiB + 302.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB gdm-session-worker.#prelink#.39HoGs [deleted]
972.0 KiB + 290.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB gsd-printer [updated]
1.0 MiB + 230.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB gdm-simple-slave [updated]
1.1 MiB + 250.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor [updated]
1.4 MiB + 37.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB crond [updated]
1.4 MiB + 73.5 KiB = 1.5 MiB gconfd-2 [updated]
1.1 MiB + 418.5 KiB = 1.5 MiB udisks-daemon [updated] (2)
1.3 MiB + 325.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB sshd
1.3 MiB + 377.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB cupsd
1.2 MiB + 635.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB gnome-shell-calendar-server [updated]
1.4 MiB + 501.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB mission-control-5 [updated]
1.7 MiB + 219.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB gnome-keyring-daemon [updated]
1.8 MiB + 210.0 KiB = 2.0 MiB console-kit-daemon [updated]
2.0 MiB + 186.5 KiB = 2.2 MiB polkitd [updated]
1.3 MiB + 990.5 KiB = 2.3 MiB abrt-applet [updated]
2.3 MiB + 262.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB su
2.9 MiB + 140.0 KiB = 3.0 MiB gvfs-fuse-daemon [updated]
2.0 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 3.1 MiB seapplet [updated]
3.0 MiB + 93.5 KiB = 3.1 MiB rsyslogd
2.6 MiB + 734.5 KiB = 3.3 MiB gdu-notification-daemon [updated]
3.0 MiB + 374.0 KiB = 3.4 MiB dbus-daemon [updated] (2)
3.0 MiB + 402.5 KiB = 3.4 MiB sendmail.sendmail (2)
2.8 MiB + 714.0 KiB = 3.5 MiB gnome-session [updated]
3.6 MiB + 28.5 KiB = 3.6 MiB irqbalance [updated]
3.4 MiB + 370.5 KiB = 3.7 MiB pulseaudio [updated]
3.2 MiB + 730.5 KiB = 3.9 MiB tracker-miner-fs [updated]
4.1 MiB + 84.5 KiB = 4.2 MiB restorecond
508.0 KiB + 3.7 MiB = 4.2 MiB udevd (3)
3.9 MiB + 473.0 KiB = 4.4 MiB packagekitd
4.1 MiB + 362.5 KiB = 4.4 MiB NetworkManager [updated]
3.9 MiB + 722.5 KiB = 4.6 MiB tracker-miner-flickr [updated]
3.9 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 4.9 MiB evolution-alarm-notify [updated]
4.8 MiB + 553.5 KiB = 5.3 MiB goa-daemon [updated]
3.9 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 5.4 MiB nm-applet [updated]
4.7 MiB + 735.0 KiB = 5.4 MiB bash [updated] (2)
5.0 MiB + 616.5 KiB = 5.6 MiB libsocialweb-core [updated]
5.5 MiB + 549.0 KiB = 6.0 MiB tracker-store [updated]
6.0 MiB + 479.0 KiB = 6.4 MiB dhclient
5.6 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 6.7 MiB gnome-screensaver.#prelink#.2oxAvu [deleted]
7.4 MiB + 504.0 KiB = 7.9 MiB Xorg [updated]
7.4 MiB + 728.0 KiB = 8.2 MiB colord [updated]
8.7 MiB + 368.0 KiB = 9.0 MiB system-config-f
8.3 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 9.6 MiB gnome-terminal [updated]
12.2 MiB + 397.0 KiB = 12.6 MiB systemd
15.6 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 17.3 MiB gnome-settings-daemon [updated]
89.8 MiB + 3.0 MiB = 92.8 MiB gnome-shell [updated]
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302.9 MiB
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Private + Shared = RAM used Program
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