[Bug 181876] After a few minutes : KDE is completely slow as swap space is fully used abnormally

Steve Corbel steve.corbel at oracle.com
Mon Jan 26 09:20:48 GMT 2009


http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181876





--- Comment #2 from Steve Corbel <steve corbel oracle com>  2009-01-26 10:20:47 ---
Hi,


Thanks for your quick reply.

Actually, swap is used because RAM memory is fully used.
So the issue is more : "A memory leak" which causes system to swap.
Here is the top evolution after 10 minutes  :

top - 10:04:08 up 6 min,  5 users,  load average: 1.19, 1.53, 0.80
Tasks: 166 total,   2 running, 164 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  6.3%us,  2.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 90.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4051108k total,  3457528k used,   593580k free,    25780k buffers
Swap:  2048248k total,        0k used,  2048248k free,  2518912k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3348 root      20   0  586m 163m  22m S  8.0  4.1   0:55.83 X
 4048 scorbel   20   0  502m  86m  21m S  0.0  2.2   0:12.72 firefox
 2922 root      20   0  516m  68m  12m S  0.0  1.7   0:05.70 webAccess
 3831 scorbel   20   0  689m  56m  25m S  1.3  1.4   0:09.15 plasma
 4714 scorbel   20   0  506m  48m  23m S  0.0  1.2   0:05.60 thunderbird-bin
 3094 root      20   0  194m  45m  14m S  0.0  1.2   0:01.55 vmware-hostd
 4071 scorbel   20   0  403m  37m  22m S  0.0  1.0   0:00.49 python
 4039 scorbel   20   0  688m  36m  19m S  0.0  0.9   0:01.14 pidgin
 3927 scorbel   20   0  337m  35m 4172 S  0.0  0.9   0:00.35 mysqld
 4560 scorbel   20   0  427m  34m  21m S  0.0  0.9   0:02.18 dolphin
 5109 scorbel   20   0  371m  32m  23m S  0.0  0.8   0:00.93 kate
 3901 scorbel   20   0  595m  28m  21m S  0.0  0.7   0:00.68 krunner
 3923 scorbel   20   0  404m  27m  16m S  2.3  0.7   0:02.43 konsole
 4056 scorbel   20   0  338m  26m  12m S  0.0  0.7   0:00.50 guidance-power-
 3821 scorbel   20   0  329m  23m  16m S  0.7  0.6   0:14.56 kwin
 3829 scorbel   20   0  501m  22m  13m S  0.0  0.6   0:00.44 knotify4
 3778 scorbel   20   0  428m  19m  14m S  0.0  0.5   0:00.65 kded4
 3819 scorbel   20   0  324m  17m  14m S  0.0  0.5   0:00.22 ksmserver
 4082 scorbel   20   0  365m  15m 9868 S  0.7  0.4   0:02.64 cairo-dock
 3910 scorbel   20   0  276m  15m  13m S  0.0  0.4   0:00.12 konqueror
 3905 scorbel   20   0  276m  15m  11m S  0.0  0.4   0:00.19 kmix
 4055 scorbel   20   0  285m  15m  12m S  0.0  0.4   0:00.08 akonadi_vcard_r
 4078 scorbel   20   0  298m  12m  10m S  0.0  0.3   0:00.21 klipper
 3776 scorbel   20   0  243m  11m 9920 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.13 klauncher
 4068 scorbel   20   0  332m  10m 8552 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.42 nm-applet
 3892 scorbel   20   0  245m  10m 8256 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.09 kaccess
 3830 scorbel   20   0  250m  10m 8000 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.05 nepomukserver
 4180 scorbel   20   0  193m 9.9m 6480 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.24 emerald
 4595 scorbel   20   0  243m 6780 4260 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 kio_trash
 3914 scorbel   20   0  353m 6204 4616 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.05 akonadiserver



After 10minutes

top - 10:09:12 up 11 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.69, 0.99, 0.75
Tasks: 168 total,   2 running, 166 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  8.0%us,  3.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 88.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4051108k total,  4027268k used,    23840k free,     1816k buffers
Swap:  2048248k total,  2048248k used,        0k free,  2000284k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3348 root      20   0  591m 170m  22m R 10.6  4.3   1:40.82 X
 4048 scorbel   20   0  491m  85m  21m S  0.0  2.2   0:14.93 firefox
 2922 root      20   0  516m  68m  12m S  0.0  1.7   0:06.06 webAccess
 3831 scorbel   20   0  689m  56m  25m S  1.0  1.4   0:15.90 plasma
 4714 scorbel   20   0  506m  48m  23m S  0.0  1.2   0:06.27 thunderbird-bin
 3094 root      20   0  194m  45m  14m S  0.0  1.2   0:01.61 vmware-hostd
 4071 scorbel   20   0  403m  37m  22m S  0.0  1.0   0:00.49 python
 4039 scorbel   20   0  688m  36m  19m S  0.0  0.9   0:01.20 pidgin
 3927 scorbel   20   0  337m  35m 4172 S  0.0  0.9   0:00.56 mysqld
 5109 scorbel   20   0  393m  35m  24m S  0.0  0.9   0:03.16 kate
 4560 scorbel   20   0  427m  34m  21m S  0.0  0.9   0:02.27 dolphin
 3901 scorbel   20   0  595m  28m  21m S  0.0  0.7   0:00.79 krunner
 3923 scorbel   20   0  404m  27m  16m S  3.6  0.7   0:04.29 konsole
 5482 scorbel   20   0  383m  27m  19m S  2.7  0.7   0:12.78 ksysguard
 4056 scorbel   20   0  338m  26m  12m S  0.0  0.7   0:00.78 guidance-power-
 3821 scorbel   20   0  329m  23m  16m S  1.0  0.6   0:23.27 kwin
 3829 scorbel   20   0  501m  22m  13m S  0.0  0.6   0:00.47 knotify4
 3778 scorbel   20   0  428m  19m  14m S  0.0  0.5   0:00.72 kded4
 3819 scorbel   20   0  324m  17m  14m S  0.0  0.5   0:00.23 ksmserver
 4082 scorbel   20   0  365m  15m 9868 S  0.7  0.4   0:04.66 cairo-dock
 3910 scorbel   20   0  276m  15m  13m S  0.0  0.4   0:00.14 konqueror
 3905 scorbel   20   0  276m  15m  11m S  0.0  0.4   0:00.21 kmix
 4055 scorbel   20   0  285m  15m  12m S  0.0  0.4   0:00.08 akonadi_vcard_r
 4078 scorbel   20   0  298m  12m  10m S  0.7  0.3   0:00.39 klipper
 3776 scorbel   20   0  243m  11m 9920 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.13 klauncher
 4068 scorbel   20   0  332m  10m 8552 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.50 nm-applet
 3892 scorbel   20   0  245m  10m 8256 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.13 kaccess
 3830 scorbel   20   0  250m  10m 8000 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.05 nepomukserver
 4180 scorbel   20   0  193m 9.9m 6480 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.34 emerald
 4595 scorbel   20   0  243m 6832 4280 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.02 kio_trash

If you have any clue ??
This is not happening with Gnome.
Regards
vouchy


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