What is hammering my memory?
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 14:00:05 UTC 2010
On my daily driver Dell Inspiron laptop I have been testing Kubuntu
10.10. Both alphas hammer the memory terribly:
merkat1 at dcl:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2011 1927 83 0 0 1228
-/+ buffers/cache: 699 1312
Swap: 2863 0 2862
merkat1 at dcl:~$
However, I see nothing really heavy in use:
top - 16:57:03 up 1:50, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.70, 0.54
Tasks: 179 total, 1 running, 176 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.1%us, 1.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2059656k total, 1972528k used, 87128k free, 220k buffers
Swap: 2931856k total, 328k used, 2931528k free, 1258032k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
894 root 20 0 154m 43m 3432 S 3 2.2 8:59.43 Xorg
14627 merkat1 20 0 125m 25m 15m S 2 1.3 1:53.45 kpackagekitsmar
26773 merkat1 20 0 85464 18m 11m S 2 0.9 0:00.81 plugin-containe
26718 merkat1 20 0 122m 20m 15m S 1 1.0 0:01.03 konsole
5118 merkat1 20 0 243m 34m 22m S 1 1.7 7:52.16 kwin
26747 merkat1 20 0 253m 80m 26m S 1 4.0 0:10.06 firefox-bin
1469 root 20 0 3708 1052 896 S 0 0.1 0:03.69 hald-addon-inpu
1624 merkat1 20 0 297m 67m 29m S 0 3.3 1:59.53 plasma-desktop
1696 merkat1 20 0 2400 1040 728 S 0 0.1 0:07.65 ksysguardd
26737 merkat1 20 0 2620 1132 836 R 0 0.1 0:00.45 top
1 root 20 0 2872 1572 1192 S 0 0.1 0:00.58 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.34 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
merkat1 at dcl:~$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 2872 1572 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [migration/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [migration/1]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [watchdog/1]
root 9 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:12 [events/0]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:03 [events/1]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [cpuset]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [khelper]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [netns]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [async/mgr]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [pm]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [sync_supers]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [bdi-default]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kintegrityd/0]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kintegrityd/1]
root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:01 [kblockd/0]
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kblockd/1]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kacpid]
root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kacpi_hotplug]
root 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:02 [ata_sff/0]
root 28 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:02 [ata_sff/1]
root 29 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [khubd]
root 30 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kseriod]
root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kmmcd]
root 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [khungtaskd]
root 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 34 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 15:06 0:00 [ksmd]
root 35 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [aio/0]
root 36 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [aio/1]
root 37 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [ecryptfs-kthr]
root 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [crypto/0]
root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [crypto/1]
root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:02 [scsi_eh_1]
root 46 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kstriped]
root 47 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kmpathd/0]
root 48 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kmpathd/1]
root 49 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kmpath_handle]
root 50 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [ksnapd]
root 51 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:12 [kondemand/0]
root 52 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:10 [kondemand/1]
root 53 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kconservative]
root 54 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kconservative]
root 295 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:02 [jfsIO]
root 296 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:01 [jfsCommit]
root 297 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:01 [jfsCommit]
root 298 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [jfsSync]
root 314 0.1 0.6 22824 12576 ? S 15:06 0:09 /sbin/plymouthd
root 358 0.0 0.0 2516 956 ? S 15:06 0:00 upstart-udev-br
root 362 0.0 0.0 2936 1208 ? S<s 15:06 0:00 udevd --daemon
root 641 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [hci0]
root 657 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [usbhid_resume]
root 672 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 673 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [cfg80211]
root 676 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [r852]
root 691 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [radeon/0]
root 692 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [radeon/1]
root 693 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [ttm_swap]
root 711 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [iwl3945]
root 712 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:02 [phy0]
root 733 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [hd-audio0]
root 785 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:06 0:01 [kslowd000]
root 786 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:06 0:01 [kslowd001]
syslog 855 0.0 0.0 35620 1420 ? Sl 15:06 0:00 rsyslogd -c4
102 858 0.0 0.0 3504 1972 ? Ss 15:06 0:03 dbus-daemon --s
root 869 0.0 0.0 3908 1004 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 kdm
root 894 8.1 2.1 51304 44476 tty7 Ss+ 15:06 9:10 /usr/bin/X :0 v
avahi 898 0.0 0.0 3000 1268 ? S 15:06 0:00 avahi-daemon: r
avahi 899 0.0 0.0 3000 436 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 avahi-daemon: c
root 902 0.0 0.2 20160 4792 ? Ssl 15:06 0:01 NetworkManager
root 904 0.0 0.1 4276 2156 ? S 15:06 0:00 /usr/sbin/modem
root 925 0.0 0.1 4900 2276 ? S 15:06 0:00 /sbin/wpa_suppl
root 944 0.0 0.0 1856 556 tty4 Ss+ 15:06 0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root 948 0.0 0.0 3188 1740 tty5 Ss 15:06 0:00 /bin/login --
root 954 0.0 0.0 1856 560 tty2 Ss+ 15:06 0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root 955 0.0 0.0 1856 560 tty3 Ss+ 15:06 0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root 957 0.0 0.0 1856 564 tty6 Ss+ 15:06 0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root 958 0.0 0.0 2112 920 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 acpid -c /etc/a
daemon 961 0.0 0.0 2316 352 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 atd
root 962 0.0 0.0 2456 880 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 cron
kernoops 985 0.0 0.0 3640 880 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 /usr/sbin/kerne
root 999 0.0 0.0 4136 1752 ? S<s 15:06 0:00 /usr/sbin/bluet
root 1004 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:06 0:00 [l2cap]
root 1036 0.0 0.1 6776 2308 ? Ss 15:06 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd
root 1039 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:06 0:00 [krfcommd]
root 1124 0.0 0.0 1856 560 tty1 Ss+ 15:07 0:00 /sbin/getty -8
root 1125 0.0 0.0 4440 1808 ? S 15:07 0:00 -:0
root 1128 0.0 0.1 21164 3144 ? Sl 15:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/conso
merkat1 1199 0.0 0.0 1896 584 ? Ss 15:07 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bi
merkat1 1241 0.0 0.0 3360 200 ? Ss 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-ag
merkat1 1244 0.0 0.0 3456 580 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-l
merkat1 1245 0.1 0.1 4916 3112 ? Ss 15:07 0:12 /bin/dbus-daemo
merkat1 1303 0.0 0.0 1684 60 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/kde4/l
merkat1 1304 0.0 0.5 72160 12180 ? Ss 15:07 0:00 kdeinit4: kdein
merkat1 1305 0.0 0.5 42448 10792 ? S 15:07 0:00 klauncher --fd=
merkat1 1307 0.1 1.2 153940 25500 ? Sl 15:07 0:08 kdeinit4: kded4
merkat1 1433 0.0 0.6 75496 12452 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/kuiser
merkat1 1436 0.0 0.5 76368 11992 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/kgloba
106 1441 0.0 0.1 17180 2716 ? Ssl 15:07 0:02 /usr/sbin/hald
root 1442 0.0 0.0 3636 1312 ? S 15:07 0:00 hald-runner
merkat1 1444 0.0 0.0 1820 236 ? S 15:07 0:00 kwrapper4 ksmse
merkat1 1466 0.0 1.2 201540 24972 ? Sl 15:07 0:01 ksmserver
merkat1 1468 0.2 1.0 287140 22444 ? Sl 15:07 0:14 /usr/bin/knotif
root 1469 0.0 0.0 3708 1052 ? S 15:07 0:03 hald-addon-inpu
root 1475 0.0 0.0 3708 1044 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
root 1483 0.0 0.0 3704 1228 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
root 1489 0.0 0.0 3720 1036 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/ha
106 1490 0.0 0.0 3512 1168 ? S 15:07 0:00 hald-addon-acpi
root 1491 0.0 0.0 3712 1048 ? S 15:07 0:02 hald-addon-stor
merkat1 1556 0.0 0.1 6376 3076 tty5 S+ 15:07 0:00 -bash
merkat1 1624 1.7 3.3 304732 68688 ? Sl 15:07 2:00 /usr/bin/plasma
merkat1 1685 0.0 0.1 43956 3944 ? Sl 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1687 0.0 0.2 124900 5928 ? Sl 15:07 0:00 akonadiserver
merkat1 1689 0.0 0.9 193948 20128 ? Sl 15:07 0:02 /usr/sbin/mysql
merkat1 1696 0.1 0.0 2400 1040 ? S 15:07 0:07 ksysguardd
merkat1 1706 0.0 0.9 107224 20008 ? Sl 15:07 0:03 /usr/bin/kwalle
merkat1 1736 0.0 0.7 78796 14620 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1737 0.0 0.7 81036 15488 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1738 0.0 0.7 78904 14752 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1739 0.0 0.7 79228 15000 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1740 0.0 0.7 87148 15368 ? Sl 15:07 0:02 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1742 0.0 0.7 79096 15108 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1744 0.0 0.7 81336 16040 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/akonad
merkat1 1756 0.0 0.4 59468 8336 ? Sl 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1761 0.1 0.8 209312 17732 ? Sl 15:07 0:07 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1766 0.2 1.9 48784 41036 ? Sl 15:07 0:19 /usr/lib/virtuo
merkat1 1796 0.0 0.6 79104 12752 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/kacces
merkat1 1806 0.0 0.3 33256 7140 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/kwrite
merkat1 1808 0.1 1.8 283048 37104 ? Sl 15:07 0:13 /usr/bin/krunne
merkat1 1814 0.0 0.6 77612 13424 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/kde4/l
merkat1 1820 0.0 0.7 78976 14744 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/kbluet
merkat1 1823 0.0 1.7 114812 36040 ? S 15:07 0:00 python /usr/bin
merkat1 1826 0.0 0.2 95528 4500 ? S<sl 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/pulsea
rtkit 1828 0.0 0.0 22980 1152 ? SNl 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/rtkit/
root 1832 0.0 0.1 6700 3544 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/policy
merkat1 1838 0.0 0.1 12844 2548 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/obex-d
merkat1 1844 0.0 1.0 204132 21584 ? Sl 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/kmix
merkat1 1926 0.0 0.7 76020 15628 ? S 15:07 0:02 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1929 0.4 0.9 94644 20596 ? Sl 15:07 0:28 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1930 0.0 0.7 93688 16468 ? Sl 15:07 0:05 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1931 0.0 0.7 84420 14964 ? S 15:07 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1932 0.0 1.0 94536 22568 ? SNl 15:07 0:02 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1933 0.0 0.7 75884 14896 ? S 15:07 0:01 /usr/bin/nepomu
merkat1 1934 0.0 0.7 76180 15204 ? S 15:07 0:01 /usr/bin/nepomu
root 2299 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:12 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root 2300 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:12 0:00 [usb-storage]
root 2317 0.0 0.0 3712 1048 ? S 15:12 0:00 hald-addon-stor
root 2521 0.0 0.0 2296 736 ? S 15:22 0:00 /sbin/dhclient
merkat1 2677 0.0 0.4 40980 10124 ? S 15:29 0:00 /usr/lib/kde4/l
merkat1 5118 10.3 1.7 245960 35812 ? Sl 15:41 7:57 /usr/bin/kwin -
merkat1 14602 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:46 0:00 [kde] <defunct>
merkat1 14605 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:46 0:00 [kde] <defunct>
merkat1 14627 2.8 1.2 128916 25768 ? Sl 15:50 1:56 /usr/lib/kde4/l
root 15475 0.0 0.0 2548 892 ? S< 16:30 0:00 udevd --daemon
root 15476 0.0 0.0 2548 600 ? S< 16:30 0:00 udevd --daemon
root 15477 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:30 0:00 [xfs_mru_cache]
root 15478 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:30 0:00 [xfslogd/0]
root 15479 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:30 0:00 [xfslogd/1]
root 15480 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:30 0:00 [xfsdatad/0]
root 15481 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:30 0:00 [xfsdatad/1]
root 15482 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:30 0:00 [xfsconvertd/0]
root 15483 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:30 0:00 [xfsconvertd/1]
root 26712 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:48 0:00 [flush-8:0]
merkat1 26714 7.3 1.4 124084 30516 ? Sl 16:50 0:38 /usr/bin/system
merkat1 26718 0.7 1.0 125680 20680 ? Sl 16:54 0:02 /usr/bin/konsol
merkat1 26720 0.0 0.1 6464 3152 pts/1 Ss 16:54 0:00 /bin/bash
merkat1 26738 0.0 0.0 1896 512 ? S 16:55 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/li
merkat1 26743 0.0 0.0 1896 508 ? S 16:55 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/li
merkat1 26747 9.0 4.0 259484 83136 ? Sl 16:55 0:18 /usr/lib/firefo
merkat1 26749 0.0 0.1 7916 2800 ? S 16:55 0:00 /usr/lib/libgco
merkat1 26763 0.0 0.6 75008 13312 ? S 16:55 0:00 /usr/lib/mozill
merkat1 26773 1.8 0.9 85464 19188 ? Sl 16:56 0:02 /usr/lib/firefo
merkat1 26788 0.0 0.0 4588 1104 pts/1 R+ 16:59 0:00 ps aux
What might be eating all that memory? Thanks.
--
Dotan Cohen
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