On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 04:45:55 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > 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?)
Something that comes to mind about apt, is that it heavily uses non-anonymously mmaped memory. So that's something that could be easy to produce a test-case for (even if just to discard the hypothesis). thanks, guillem
