Hi all,
I am running jaunty. Sometimes, randomly, the disk starts spinning (I
hear the noise and see the light) and the system becomes unusable.
Often, to gain control of a shell (even in console) is a matter of
waiting minutes and eventually, when I finally can do some "top" "iotop"
or "ps" to un
> vince...@frattaglia:~$ free
> total used free sharedbuffers
> cached
> Mem: 1017884 987568 30316 0 16544
> 651836
> -/+ buffers/cache: 319188 698696
> Swap: 18875961884040 3556
>
>
> So yes, an hurricane has pas
Il giorno sab, 23/05/2009 alle 13.10 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running jaunty. Sometimes, randomly, the disk starts spinning (I
> hear the noise and see the light) and the system becomes unusable.
> Often, to gain control of a shell (even in console) is a matter of
> w
On Saturday 23 May 2009 7:26:04 am Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> It seems that I spoke too early: I restarted firefox that I had killed,
> and everything started swapping again. I was visiting three online
> newspapers and "top" reported a "RES" memory for ALL typical heavy
> processes (xorg, firefox,
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> xorg around 500 mb
>
If you are using the proprietary ATI drivers (fglrx), this is a known memory
leak. [1]
As a temporary workaround, upgrading to the latest drivers from the ATI
website fixes it.
Evan
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/u
Il giorno sab, 23/05/2009 alle 09.55 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan ha scritto:
>
> Sounds fairly normal to me...heck, only 100MB for Firefox? I'm
> surprised to
> see that Firefox is currently using only 462MB for me. It's usually
> at least
> 700MB, sometimes over 1GB just for that process.
>
> We
