I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and some small background processes.
Here's an output of htop several minutes after quitting iceweasel (it's still running to do some clean up, I suppose). Below, the processes are sorted by MEM%, but none of them are taking more that 4% CPU time. CPU[||| 5.2%] Tasks: 112 total, 1 running Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||233/249MB] Load average: 2.71 2.99 2.75 Swp[|||||||||||||||||| 298/511MB] Uptime: 5 days, 01:10:57 PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 30542 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.22 /usr/lib/iceweasel 30513 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 D 0.0 62.0 37:15.22 /usr/lib/iceweasel 30520 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:00.00 /usr/lib/iceweasel 30519 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:01.08 /usr/lib/iceweasel 30514 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 0:05.40 /usr/lib/iceweasel 30515 lefevre 20 0 466M 154M 2804 S 0.0 62.0 2:05.32 /usr/lib/iceweasel 3022 root 20 0 52532 5916 1424 S 0.0 2.3 1h22:45 /usr/bin/X11/X -dp 2755 lefevre 20 0 40960 5652 3172 S 0.0 2.2 3h10:04 perl /home/lefevre 2754 lefevre 20 0 41404 5636 3108 S 0.0 2.2 5h31:30 perl /home/lefevre 3343 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 0:00.00 /usr/bin/liferea-b 3443 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 0:00.00 /usr/bin/liferea-b 3444 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 0:48.96 /usr/bin/liferea-b 3446 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 0:01.84 /usr/bin/liferea-b 3447 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 D 0.0 2.0 0:11.59 /usr/bin/liferea-b 3448 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 0:00.00 /usr/bin/liferea-b 3449 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 0:00.00 /usr/bin/liferea-b 25072 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 0:00.00 /usr/bin/liferea-b 3176 lefevre 20 0 159M 5196 3528 S 0.0 2.0 7:15.82 /usr/bin/liferea-b 2757 lefevre 20 0 40176 5072 3024 S 0.0 2.0 3h14:04 perl /home/lefevre 2770 lefevre 20 0 39672 5060 3024 S 0.0 2.0 3h20:18 perl /home/lefevre 9736 lefevre 20 0 13128 3668 2344 S 0.0 1.4 0:00.74 xterm -class UXTer 3208 lefevre 20 0 23924 2932 2504 S 0.0 1.1 0:11.14 /home/lefevre/Apps 3194 lefevre 20 0 10612 2552 1204 S 0.0 1.0 0:53.82 zsh 9757 lefevre 20 0 6784 2396 1960 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.22 ssh -F /home/lefev 2374 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 1:14.51 /usr/bin/python /u 2375 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 1:28.85 /usr/bin/python /u 2378 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 1:29.07 /usr/bin/python /u 2379 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 1:29.12 /usr/bin/python /u 2382 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 1:16.21 /usr/bin/python /u 2383 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 1:27.84 /usr/bin/python /u 2373 root 20 0 60520 2104 960 S 0.0 0.8 8:28.62 /usr/bin/python /u 3148 lefevre 20 0 18948 1760 1384 S 0.0 0.7 3:13.87 fvwm2 -cmd FvwmM4 3174 lefevre 20 0 10204 1596 1196 S 0.0 0.6 0:39.00 xterm -geometry 80 Once iceweasel has really quit, everything is back to normal: CPU[|| 3.2%] Tasks: 106 total, 1 running Mem[||||||||||||| 52/249MB] Load average: 0.29 0.96 1.87 Swp[|||||||| 129/511MB] Uptime: 5 days, 01:20:48 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
