Swap filling up, apps crashing

[Nick Fenger]

Jonathan,

I also ran into some memory problems on a 512MB machine. Disabling certain
> things that run on startup (most notable jockey-gtk and italc) reduced the
> memory usage


I am impressed that these machines run very well for 10-20 minutes, I can
browse the web and run flash and java sites & openoffice simultaneously,
however, swap inches up and things start crashing. A reboot is the only way
to clear the swap back to 0.

I do expect that with only 512MB of ram I will need remove anything extra -
thanks for the suggestions. This appears to be more like a memory leak,
however, I'm wondering if it's related to the lucid x memory leaks found
during beta testing. I can't seem to find what's hogging the swap memory?

Thanks,

-Nick

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <
jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Nick
>
> On 04/09/2010 13:21, Nick Fenger wrote:
> > I'm having an issue where swap fills to 100% (0Kb free) after
> > running applications such as openoffice and chrome/firefox but does not
> > decrease substantially when the applications are closed. Ultimately when
> > swap reaches 100%, browser plugins start crashing (java, flash).
> >
> > The configuration is a mostly out-of-the-box fat-clients (32Bit 3.2Ghz
> > 512MB intel video systems) with a Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid image I built with
> > the --fat-client option of ltsp-build-client on a 64Bit Server. I've
> > made no customizations is Lts.conf.
> > Thank you for your support,
>
> In my initial tests with diskless fat clients, I also ran into some
> memory problems on a 512MB machine. Disabling certain things that run on
> startup (most notable jockey-gtk and italc) reduced the memory usage
> quite a bit and made it possible to log in and use the machine much better.
>
> It doesn't quite sound like you have the same issue that I had, but
> perhaps even removing some of these session startup programs might fix
> yours as well.
>
> -Jonathan
>



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