Hi, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:42:22AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote:
> As recently I aquired the (bad) habit of running my system 24/7, > almost never voluntarily rebooting, I was able to make further > observations. I totally forgot to mention another important bit: the growing swap consumption can be triggered "reliably" simply by installing a lot of Debian packages -- doing an "apt-get upgrade" for example. (I occasionally observed growing memory usage with other commands doing I/O on large amounts of data as well; but couldn't pinpoint any specific situations so far... Perhaps it's just some randomly triggered bug accumulating dead objects in memory or something like that?) -antrik-