My thoughts confirmed.... about 13.10

[J]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:02 AM, c. marlow <chris at marlows.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 22:36 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
>> On 14-04-10 09:30 PM, c. marlow wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 20:55 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> >> On 10 April 2014 18:12, c. marlow <chris at marlows.org> wrote:
>> >>> On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 17:29 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> >>>> On 10 April 2014 16:57, c. marlow <chris at marlows.org> wrote:
>> >>>>> I just googled my issue and it DOES look like 13.10 does have a memory
>> >>>>> leak issue and the only thing you can do when it gets up real high is
>> >>>>> either log off and back on to get it down from 1.1 gig back to 400 mb or
>> >>>>> go and kill gnome-session and when it takes you back to the log in
>> >>>>> screen just sign back in.... or when I get done just log off everytime
>> >>>>> and sign in when im ready to get back on the computer
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ugh......... just my luck I should of installed 13.04 or 12.04
>> >>>> I have not seen any such issues.  Is there a bug report for this?
>> >>>> Does the system monitor show that a particular app is using lots of memory?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> You could always try 14.04.  Not much point installing 13.10 at the
>> >>>> moment anyway when the next version is due any day.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Colin
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> This was taken this morning Colin, I left NOTHING open... I went to bed
>> >>> forgot to put pc in standby and just had turned the monitor off. I woke
>> >>> up around 2 am and saw this.
>> >>>
>> >>> http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/UBUNTU/damnunity_zps86c07b3b.png
>> >> It is using less than half of the available RAM and virtually no swap.
>> >>   That is probably nothing to worry about.  Linux will use available
>> >> RAM for disk buffers and so on when it can in order to speed up the
>> >> system.  If that is what is happening then the memory will be freed up
>> >> if it is required.
>> >>
>> >> If there were a significant memory leak then you would probably the
>> >> swap usage go up.
>> >>
>> >> Next time it happens run top in a terminal and post the two lines
>> >> showing the memory usage.
>> >>
>> >> Colin
>> >>
>> >
>> > Ok Here you go here is my TOP ....  I walked away came back and Ubuntu
>> > was at 1.1 gig being used.
>> >
>> > http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/UBUNTU/TOP.jpeg
>>
>> Well, that shows your culplit pretty clear, Firefox and
>> "plugin-container" with 70% cpu usage, as well as 700+MB of memory for
>> that alone... you left a browser window open on a site with a demanding
>> flash thingy?
>>
>
>
> Nope because I got up at 2 am this morning and got on the pc and it was
> using 1.3 gigs and nothing was left open.
>

Dump firefox and get Chrome...

This is a problem with Firefox, or if not specifically firefox, with
the plugins you have installed.  That's why you see plugin-container.
Watch it long enough, and you should see it slowly climb higher...

Another thing you need to do, is run top, but sort on the Res column.
Virt is the total memory size including what the app has mapped for
itself, any cached pages, etc., but Res is what's actually in RAM at
the moment.

http://mugurel.sumanariu.ro/linux/the-difference-among-virt-res-and-shr-in-top-output/

Anyway, I used to see this maddeningly as it would cause me to have to
reboot every two days because the browser plugins would constantly
chew up memory and never release it.  Eventually I dumped Firefox
completely and just use Chrome on my linux boxes today.  Chrome has
its own issues but it seems to work far better than Firefox.

Cheers
Jeff