-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
this may not strictly be about (just) KDE, but I'm experiencing really excessive swapping activity on my laptop since a little while back. The most recent major change is the upgrade to KDE 4.4.3. I had all the previous KDE 4 versions in Debian, and my feeling is that I had less problems earlier, but it's hard to tell. Anyway, the system is a Thinkpad T61 with 4 GB of RAM, kernel 3.6.33.2, Intel graphics, X.org and KDE from sid. Obviously KDE is not by itself eating all that RAM. The main memory hog is Eclipse which I use for development, and with the right plugins installed it really does require lots of memory. Still, I think I should be allowed to use one big application like this without killing performance. (Or maybe 4 GB is just not enough for a development machine these days?) The system will often grind to a halt for several minutes while iotop shows that it is busy swapping, usually swapping in the Eclipse process. The most annoying thing is that KDE becomes totally unresponsive during all this time, I cannot even move the mouse pointer. I realise this is a complex problem, but maybe someone has hints on how to improve the situation. Could it be a problem with hard drive performance? Or did KDE recently start hogging more RAM? Any ideas where to look? This is getting in the way of productivity, so something has to be done. Here is "top" output for the biggest memory sinks: 14779 marcus 20 0 2445m 1.3g 5808 S 1 34.5 15:33.26 java 14017 root 20 0 1363m 164m 9668 S 11 4.2 1554:02 Xorg 14203 marcus 20 0 728m 141m 6344 S 4 3.7 542:25.08 kwin 29998 marcus 20 0 789m 102m 11m S 0 2.7 3:23.73 icedove-bin 18782 marcus 20 0 459m 99m 4572 S 0 2.6 13:44.35 emacs 14210 marcus 20 0 978m 97m 10m S 0 2.5 129:12.74 plasma-desktop 17609 marcus 20 0 531m 44m 11m S 0 1.2 13:30.99 chrome 26921 marcus 20 0 203m 38m 784 S 0 1.0 36:15.53 skype 32352 marcus 20 0 616m 31m 6924 D 3 0.8 4:47.04 akregator 14281 marcus 20 0 360m 27m 5920 S 2 0.7 16:34.45 konsole 14328 marcus 20 0 722m 27m 7404 S 0 0.7 10:24.57 kopete 31194 marcus 20 0 1249m 22m 6076 S 0 0.6 20:52.24 amarok 18826 marcus 20 0 458m 18m 3216 S 1 0.5 26:26.25 chrome 18798 marcus 20 0 795m 17m 4448 S 0 0.5 1:33.26 chrome 10175 marcus 20 0 931m 15m 3268 S 0 0.4 1:12.29 krunner 14146 marcus 20 0 510m 15m 3960 S 0 0.4 7:45.33 kded4 20516 marcus 20 0 534m 15m 2540 S 0 0.4 0:33.32 knode Well, this really points to Eclipse (the "java" process), but still 1.3 GB is not even half of available RAM. Cheers, Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvpI5kACgkQXjXn6TzcAQkuXACfYNbFtMRbvsG1D9H2/vwRqY6H QhEAoKelqqk08KqBTENWHSAfu10kDXWX =KExY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hsb831$3q...@dough.gmane.org
