Re: memory issues

["William S. Huizinga" <huizingw mindspring com>]

I have seen this on my machine also.  128 Mb RAM, 100 Mb swap.  If I leave
myself logged in for a few days, something eventually leaks enough memory that
the system runs out.  It isn't pretty.  I have the KDE also setup and it doesn't
seem to have the problem when I run it instead.

Have the base RH 6.0, with gnome-libs-1.0.10 and -core-1.0.6.  Using the SVGA
server (if that matters),
generally run a well-loaded panel (asclock, pager, memory usage monitor, and cpu
usage monitor), gmc, Netscrape, two gnome-terminals, and maybe control center...
aw heck, here's a ps -ax:

[huizingw@cera gnome]$ ps ax
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:04 init
    2 ?        SW     0:00 [kflushd]
    3 ?        SW     0:00 [kpiod]
    4 ?        SW     0:00 [kswapd]
    5 ?        SW<    0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
  232 ?        S      0:00 portmap
  255 ?        S      0:00 syslogd -m 0
  266 ?        S      0:00 klogd
  280 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
  294 ?        S      0:00 crond
  308 ?        SW     0:00 [inetd]
  322 ?        S      0:00 routed
  336 ?        S      0:00 lpd
  372 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
  387 ?        S      0:00 gpm -t imps2
  410 ?        S      0:01 xfs
  448 tty1     SW     0:00 [mingetty]
  449 tty2     SW     0:00 [mingetty]
  450 tty3     SW     0:00 [mingetty]
  451 tty4     SW     0:00 [mingetty]
  452 tty5     SW     0:00 [mingetty]
  453 tty6     SW     0:00 [mingetty]
  454 ?        S      0:00 [prefdm]
  456 ?        S      0:00 update (bdflush)
  458 ?        R      8:27 /usr/bin/X11/X -auth /var/gdm/:0.xauth :0
  461 ?        SW     0:00 [prefdm]
  466 ?        SW     0:00 [Default]
  478 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-session
  497 ?        S      0:01 gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-m
  501 ?        S      0:12 [enlightenment]
  516 ?        S      0:00 esd -nobeeps -as 30
  518 ?        S      0:05 xscreensaver -no-splash -timeout 20 -nice 10 -lock
  520 ?        S      0:05 panel --sm-config-prefix /panel.d/Session-17HjKq/
  522 ?        S      0:03 gmc --sm-config-prefix /gmc-zhw4cX/ --sm-client-id
  524 ?        S      0:00 sol --sm-config-prefix /sol-dE5I24/ --sm-client-id
  526 ?        S      0:02 gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix /gnome-terminal-
  530 ?        S      0:00 gmix --sm-config-prefix /gmix-hphnAK/ --sm-client-
  532 ?        S      0:00 gnomecc --sm-config-prefix /gnomecc-PegK0N/ --sm-c
  534 ?        SW     0:00 [gnome-name-serv]
  544 ?        SW     0:00 [gnome-pty-helpe]
  545 pts/0    SW     0:00 [tcsh]
  560 ?        S      0:03 multiload_applet --activate-goad-server multiload_
  574 ?        S      0:00 asclock_applet --activate-goad-server asclock_appl
  576 ?        S      0:16 gnomepager_applet --activate-goad-server gnomepage
  583 pts/0    SW     0:00 [su]
  587 pts/0    S      0:00 -csh
 9627 ?        S      0:35 xemacs echo.idl
11612 ?        S      0:01 kghostview -caption PostScript document viewer -ic
11772 ?        S      0:01 gnome-terminal
11773 ?        S      0:00 gnome-pty-helper
11774 pts/2    S      0:00 -csh
14106 pts/0    S      0:00 sh /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp daemon
14113 pts/0    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd -detach lock modem crtscts asyncmap
14158 ?        S      1:15 netscape
14159 ?        S      0:00 (dns helper)
14277 pts/0    R      0:00 ps ax

and a free:

[huizingw@cera gnome]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        127964     122804       5160      40448       6920      52728
-/+ buffers/cache:      63156      64808
Swap:       102812      11848      90964

Let me know if further info would be useful.

wsh


Geoff Reedy wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:56:45PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > How much RAM and swap space do you have?
>
> I have 24M RAM and ~45M swap but that shouldn't be the problem.  It runs fine
> for a while, but then starts to go crazy.  I've been trying to identify the
> point at which it happens, but I hvae not been able to reproduce it.  I mean,
> it happens every time but I cannot deliberately _make_ it happen.  Although I
> did notice today that it happpened very soon after I started configuring my
> background image, I doubt that there is any real useful information that can
> be gotten from this but I don't think it is specifically the background
> properties capplet, if anything it is some bizare bug in some image loading
> routine(s) somewhere.
>
> BTW I had these same problems with the gnome RPMs from redhat-6.0 as well as
> the updated ones that I am running now, but I did not have these problems
> with 5.2 and the gnome RPMs from gnome.org.
>
> --
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> vader21@imsa.edu                    Illinois Math and Science Academy
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