Apparently, though unproven, at 16:20 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly:
> Oh, even weirder: The phone just rang, and five minutes later, swap has > gone to 860M. I was running rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes, maybe > this uses much memory, and caches the stuff. Now the command has finished, > and paging has stopped. The rdiff-backup process itself does not use much > memory. > > BTW, does anyone else's kwin use 750M? That's pretty high, I think it used > to be more like 300M. I've been noticing this kind of thing too for a while now. In my case it's the nepomuk/akonadi/virtuoso stack doing it - it seems to trigger full scans at weird times and does other special things after a resume from suspend. Virtuoso can sometimes get as high as 800M RES memory in top. Which is all quite bizarre, I suspect a dodgy config on my part. As for kwin - what column are you reading the value from? Here kwin uses more like 60M -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
