Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:38:11 + (UTC) JB wrote: > I refer back to my original post and recommend that you use dstat. > $ yum list dstat Sorry maybe I misunderstood earlier. I thought it was an either or between dstat and iotop. I thought since I had already used iotop to look at this trying d

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-15 Thread JB
Suvayu Ali gmail.com> writes: > ... > Are there any utilities that would help me determine which application > is using the swap? > ... I refer back to my original post and recommend that you use dstat. $ yum list dstat http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/11/12/using-dstat-to-check-i-o-and-swap

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello everyone, On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:07:45 +1030 Tim wrote: > Either the program can expand the whole thing, when it opens, or just > the portion of it that you're currently viewing. Expanding the lot > uses a lot of memory (whether it's RAM or swap), only expanding the > current bit means yo

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-13 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 03:57 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Lately I have been working with a lot of pdfs and most of these pdfs > are about thousand page long documents (but only ~ 20-30 Mb in file > size). For what it's worth, the filesize of files like PDFs and JPEGs isn't a real good indication of

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:37:30 -0500 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > JB: > > I have tried using iotop before, I didn't see anything out of the > ordinary. > > > Ranjan: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:11:42 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > There were memory leaks in evince, I don't know if they g

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, JB: I have tried using iotop before, I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Ranjan: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:11:42 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > There were memory leaks in evince, I don't know if they got fixed. > > One problem I saw was, if you zoomed in then out then in, the > > mem

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:47:24 -0500 Yorvyk wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:57:35 -0700 > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > Hi Fedorans, > > > > My workstation has been paging a lot lately. It's a fairly high-end > > system, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz (overclocked, originally it was > > 3.0 GHz) and

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-13 Thread Yorvyk
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:57:35 -0700 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi Fedorans, > > My workstation has been paging a lot lately. It's a fairly high-end > system, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz (overclocked, originally it was > 3.0 GHz) and 2x2GB Corsair RAMs. > > lshw output: > *-memory > descriptio

Re: Frequent paging

2011-03-13 Thread JB
Suvayu Ali gmail.com> writes: > ... This is more of an empirical matter. The only kernel param is (default): # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 You have to watch what is happening when you do your daily routines. These tools may help you: http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/11/12/using-iotop-to-

Frequent paging

2011-03-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Fedorans, My workstation has been paging a lot lately. It's a fairly high-end system, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz (overclocked, originally it was 3.0 GHz) and 2x2GB Corsair RAMs. lshw output: *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 19 slot: System board or motherbo