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.



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Dotan Cohen

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