On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:04:36PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > afirefox: After using an affected Firefox profile
>
> Ok, let's breakdown it (left is aboot, right is afirefox).
> Here we see about 2Gb of memory consumed:
>
> MemFree: 32124660 kB / MemFree: 30144704 kB
>
> Such discrepancy can be attributed, first, […]
>
> Summing it up, it gives us 668382 kB of discrepancy.
> […]
> So the big question is - where 650M of memory gone? My money is on
> kernel modules. Maybe it's Intel's VideoRAM steal (don't know if AMD do
> it the same way). Maybe it's some proprietary kernel module.
>
> I know no way of accounting memory usage of kernel module, but I can
> spot some possible candidates from "lsmod" output.
Thanks.
Afaik there are no proprietary kernel modules in the default buster install and
I did not install proprietary modules either. BUT I did install proprietary
firmware for the devices.
First I only installed firmware-amd-graphics as it is necessary for XServer to
work. But the same GPU was already present in my previous desktop system.
After I noticed the issue with memory I also installed in that order
·firmware-realtek for the ethernet controller
(The controller does work without it, possibly not at full speed, but it
works fast enough for my connection)
·amd64-microcode for the CPU
But this does not seem to have made any difference. Beside these 3 package the
only other installed package from non-free is a font-package.
Here's the lsmod output
(while some programs are running in case that's relevant):
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 24576 1
amdgpu 5373952 26
nls_ascii 16384 1
nls_cp437 20480 1
vfat 20480 1
fat 86016 1 vfat
mfd_core 20480 1 amdgpu
gpu_sched 40960 1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 amdgpu
ttm 122880 1 amdgpu
snd_usb_audio 290816 0
drm_kms_helper 245760 1 amdgpu
snd_hda_codec_realtek 126976 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 98304 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
ledtrig_audio 16384 1 snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 73728 1
snd_hda_intel 53248 10
snd_intel_dspcfg 20480 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 163840 4
snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_core 102400 5
snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_usbmidi_lib 40960 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 45056 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
snd_hwdep 16384 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 131072 6
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core
snd_timer 45056 2 snd_pcm
cec 49152 1 drm_kms_helper
snd 102400 29
snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi
drm 581632 17 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,ttm
mc 57344 1 snd_usb_audio
kvm_amd 114688 0
kvm 806912 1 kvm_amd
eeepc_wmi 16384 0
irqbypass 16384 1 kvm
asus_wmi 40960 1 eeepc_wmi
battery 20480 1 asus_wmi
pcspkr 16384 0
sparse_keymap 16384 1 asus_wmi
video 53248 1 asus_wmi
crct10dif_pclmul 16384 1
crc32_pclmul 16384 0
soundcore 16384 1 snd
rfkill 28672 2 asus_wmi
ghash_clmulni_intel 16384 0
aesni_intel 368640 0
ccp 106496 1 kvm_amd
sp5100_tco 20480 0
glue_helper 16384 1 aesni_intel
crypto_simd 16384 1 aesni_intel
cryptd 24576 2 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel
evdev 28672 15
k10temp 16384 0
rng_core 16384 1 ccp
watchdog 28672 1 sp5100_tco
wmi_bmof 16384 0
sg 36864 0
efi_pstore 16384 0
efivars 20480 1 efi_pstore
wmi 36864 2 asus_wmi,wmi_bmof
acpi_cpufreq 28672 0
button 24576 0
parport_pc 32768 0
ppdev 24576 0
lp 20480 0
parport 61440 3 parport_pc,lp,ppdev
efivarfs 16384 1
ip_tables 32768 0
x_tables 53248 1 ip_tables
autofs4 53248 2
ext4 770048 3
crc32c_generic 16384 0
crc16 16384 1 ext4
mbcache 16384 1 ext4
jbd2 139264 1 ext4
sd_mod 57344 5
hid_generic 16384 0
usbhid 65536 0
hid 139264 2 usbhid,hid_generic
sr_mod 28672 0
cdrom 73728 1 sr_mod
ahci 40960 4
libahci 45056 1 ahci
xhci_pci 20480 0
crc32c_intel 24576 6
libata 290816 2 libahci,ahci
xhci_hcd 290816 1 xhci_pci
i2c_piix4 28672 0
nvme 49152 1
r8169 90112 0
realtek 24576 1
scsi_mod 253952 4 sd_mod,libata,sg,sr_mod
usbcore 315392 5
xhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,usbhid,snd_usbmidi_lib,xhci_pci
libphy 135168 2 r8169,realtek
nvme_core 110592 3 nvme
t10_pi 16384 2 sd_mod,nvme_core
