On 2008-12-27 16:00 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/27/08 06:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> 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. > > What did you use to generate this report? > >> 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 > > I think it's interesting (in a bad way...) that there are 6 individual > iceweasel processes running, since no matter how many IW windows I > have open, there's only one firefox-bin (or, sometimes, > xulrunner-stub) process.
Are you sure? I also see several firefox-bin processes, but they only show up in pstree or htop, not in top. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
