How do I track down what's causing the swapping?

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Post #191,847 by drewk 1/26/05 10:48:58 PM Reply	How do I track down what's causing the swapping? For about the last month, the longer I leave an X session running the more swap I have in use. (I use the system monitor applet.) Eventually performance starts to suffer, I restart X, and everything is fine for a couple of days then it starts to creep up. I'm assuming a recent update has a memory leak, but have no idea how to track down the cause. I checked `top` and sorted by memory use, and XFree86 was on top. Next was Mozilla. I shut down Mozilla and swap didn't go down. Nothing else showed more than 1% memory use. It's a fairly crappy old box with not enough memory, but it didn't used to do this. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #191,851 by Another Scott 1/26/05 11:04:56 PM Reply	Another thing to try. [link\|http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/msg/8940ed4a4ea50f44?dmode=source\|Google Groups]: also it would help, when your system is dug deep into swap run: ps auxw >~/ps.log You'll have to dig around for information on interpreting that file, but it might help you track things a little better. HTH. GL! Cheers, Scott.
Post #191,854 by daemon 1/26/05 11:13:11 PM Reply	check to see what proc is using the most cpu time ps -ef(or local flags to see all)the cpu minutes used will usually indicate the culprit regards, daemon Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape: Samuel Butler clearwater highschool marching band [link\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/\|http://www.chstornadoband.org/]
Post #191,858 by drewk 1/26/05 11:31:28 PM Reply	Thanks to both === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #191,946 by folkert 1/27/05 10:52:11 AM Reply	What version of XF86? I have 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10, and I am using the glint driver (mainly because I have a glint card ...) I have been running it for quite a while and have had no leakage. (Anal or otherwise) Have you tried to restart the X Server? (/etc/init.d/[gkt]wm stop etc...) Did the memory get released? If not, then it is something else. Kernel? Distro?... what? -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [link\|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230\|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source]
Post #191,948 by drewk 1/27/05 11:30:27 AM 1/27/05 11:42:01 AM Reply	Same xserver version as you Okay, tried to restart gdm and it locked up hard. Had to power cycle it. Came back up, no swap in use. Before I did that I tried killing Mozilla, swap didn't go down. Will try to watch for when I see it creeping up. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com] Edited by drewk Jan. 27, 2005, 11:42:01 AM EST Expand All History
Post #191,957 by pwhysall 1/27/05 12:19:52 PM Reply	Xfree86? How quaint :-) X.org 6.80, baby! Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!

How do I track down what's causing the swapping? - (drewk) - (6) - Jan. 26, 2005, 10:48:58 PM EST

Another thing to try. - (Another Scott) - Jan. 26, 2005, 11:04:56 PM EST

check to see what proc is using the most cpu time - (daemon) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2005, 11:13:11 PM EST

Thanks to both -NT - (drewk) - Jan. 26, 2005, 11:31:28 PM EST

What version of XF86? - (folkert) - (2) - Jan. 27, 2005, 10:52:11 AM EST

Same xserver version as you - (drewk) - Jan. 27, 2005, 11:42:01 AM EST

Xfree86? How quaint :-) - (pwhysall) - Jan. 27, 2005, 12:19:52 PM EST

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