Re: konqueror heavy swapping +kicker and log-in errors

2006-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
First of all, I want to thank everyone who has contributed (and who might yet contribute) to this thread--I think I'm learning quite a bit, but I do have more comments/questions: On Wednesday 25 January 2006 06:04 am, Pol wrote: > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > What process uses most memory according

Re: konqueror heavy swapping +kicker and log-in errors

2006-01-25 Thread Pol
Kevin Krammer wrote: > What process uses most memory according to top? > This is the normal condition, cut from the 'top' command PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ SWAP COMMAND 5997 pol 15 0 91408 31m 11m S 0.0 4.2 0:53.22 57m konqueror 6032 pol 15 0

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Van Damme
2006/1/24, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did you ever try to adjust the "swappiness" of your system? I think it > is set quite high by default on Debian. This means that the kernel will > swap out sleeping processes quite aggressively as soon as there is the > slightest possibility that the

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
Frank Van Damme wrote: [...] Recently, the family complains about my computers performance. We use this pc with me (kde) and 1-2 others running windowmaker and kmail + maybe one or 2 light applications. Whenever I am logged in, their session becomes dog slow to load (probably swapped out), and d

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Van Damme
2006/1/23, Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Although I strongly hope that kde gradually develops a smaller memory > footprint, I suspect there is something about the kernel's use of swap that > causes the behavior I see. That is possible. Recently, the family complains about my computers perfo

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-24 Thread Randy Kramer
On Monday 23 January 2006 04:38 pm, HeWe wrote: > $ top > > then hit > 'h' for more help > 'm' for sort memory consumption with > 'f' you should see a dialog for adding/deleting fields, one of them is > 'p' = Swapped size (kb) Thanks! (Guess I didn't look very closely at man top--I can see where

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-23 Thread HeWe
Am Montag, 23. Januar 2006 21:46 schrieb Randy Kramer: > PPS: Guess I'll have a look at man top--I wonder if there is a way to have > top display the processes in order of memory use (instead of CPU > use)?--Nope, don't see anything, and top | sort doesn't seem to work. $ top then hit 'h' for mo

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-23 Thread Randy Kramer
On Monday 23 January 2006 02:38 pm, Kevin Krammer wrote: > What process uses most memory according to top? Thanks for the response! At the moment, the top three memory users are: * (an instance of) konqueror at 13.8% * X at 11.8% * (another instance of) konqueror at 10.7% I suspect tha

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday 23 January 2006 18:19, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Monday 23 January 2006 10:52 am, Pol wrote: > > Sometimes, when several tens tabs are open on the desktop, konqueror > > (3.4) almost freeze the machine due to heavy swapping lasting about 10 > > minutes, as i can infer from the led monitori

Re: konqueror heavy swapping

2006-01-23 Thread Randy Kramer
On Monday 23 January 2006 10:52 am, Pol wrote: > Sometimes, when several tens tabs are open on the desktop, konqueror > (3.4) almost freeze the machine due to heavy swapping lasting about 10 > minutes, as i can infer from the led monitoring the hard disk activity > By the 'top' command, one can rea