On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 09:00 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 11/17/20 8:51 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Does anyone else see this? My system is not overloaded, there's nothing
> > taking lots of CPU or IO. However evolution and various WebKit
> > processes are each taking about 80-100Gb of virtual memory. Is this
> > normal? (Resident memory is within normal ranges.)
>
> Yes I've seen Evolution do that lag thing many times. Whatever goes on
> inside the HTML composer is not well done.
So it's not me going mad! But this is plain text composing and I've
only noticed it since upgrading to F33 and 3.38.1
>
> The virtual memory use is part of WebKit and is called Gigacages. It
> allocates huge zones of memory around compiled Javascript so that even
> if some bug allowed direct memory accesses, it isn't mathematically
> possible for it to reach sensitive data.
>
Err, OK. It just looks odd when I have 5 or 6 processes all taking
nearly 100Gb of virtual memory:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
81695 pete 20 0 99.1g 111556 90300 S 0.3 0.7 0:05.12
WebKitWebProces
77144 pete 20 0 98.0g 45280 38444 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.16
WebKitNetworkPr
81694 pete 20 0 98.0g 44680 37912 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.06
WebKitNetworkPr
77146 pete 20 0 85.4g 126724 95132 S 0.0 0.8 0:31.77
WebKitWebProces
77101 pete 20 0 84.1g 436828 128640 S 6.0 2.7 2:21.81
evolution
P.
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