On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:42:22AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > The slowdown might be a result of the growing memory usage, causing a > need to swap all the time. There is no audible thrashing though while > the system behaves sluggish... And also, it wouldn't explain the crash > while there is still plenty of free swap. > > Another possible explanation would be some kind of fragmentation, making > VM operations increasingly more costly, and finally causing some kind of > resource exhaustion. (The disappearing memory however wouldn't be > explained by this either I guess...) > > Either way, I have no idea how to go about narrowing down the problem > :-(
Here is a simple suggestion: try to measure the depth of the shadow object chains. -- Richard Braun
