On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 09:33:20PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote > Hi, > > since a few days my system eats up memory, uses SWAP space and gets > slow. It might depend on xorg-server, but I don't know why. > > On a nearly idle system (except xorg-server and some XTerms) I have > MEM | tot 7.5G | free 2.9G | cache 1.2G | buff 114.6M | > slab 498.0M | shmem 848.3M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M > > (My system has 8G memory installed)
Run "top -c" from the commandline (xterm or true text console), and take a look at the "%CPU" and "%MEM" columns. Is there anything that looks bad? You may have to wait for a day or two for the guilty app to chew up memory, to catch it. > When I stop the X-server I get > > MEM | tot 7.5G | free 6.9G | cache 387.4M | buff 118.4M | > slab 72.0M | shmem 1.4M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M | When you shut down X, you also shut down all gui applications, including whatever is eating memory, so that's not going to help pin down the culprit. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
