[XORG] Huge RAM use while user.

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Gogiel · Post by **Gogiel** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:42 am

When i startx as user free -m gives me:

gogiel@gogiel gogiel $ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           250        243          7          0          5         40
-/+ buffers/cache:        197         53
Swap:          509          8        501

As root there are 190-200 MB free buffers/cache.

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gogiel@gogiel gogiel $ groups 
root adm wheel floppy audio cdrom video games cdrw users portage

I've got that problem on all Xorg (from 6.8.0-r1 to 6.8.2-r1)

thebigslide · Post by **thebigslide** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:46 am

run top and '>' to sort by memory usage?

Gogiel · Post by **Gogiel** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:49 am

Everything takes tones of ram

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Tasks:  69 total,   2 running,  66 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    256808k total,   252320k used,     4488k free,     2888k buffers
Swap:   522072k total,    29348k used,   492724k free,    40428k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
16826 gogiel    15   0 72756  45m  16m S  0.0 18.2   0:36.76 firefox-bin        
16838 gogiel    16   0 72756  45m  16m S  0.0 18.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
16839 gogiel    16   0 72756  45m  16m S  0.0 18.2   0:00.19 firefox-bin        
16841 gogiel    15   0 72756  45m  16m S  0.0 18.2   0:00.24 firefox-bin        
17030 gogiel    16   0 72756  45m  16m S  0.0 18.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
16738 root      15   0  161m  28m 6392 S  0.0 11.4   0:25.79 X                  
16762 gogiel    15   0 32204  19m 8552 S  0.0  7.8   0:01.01 xfce4-panel        
17029 gogiel    15   0 31224  16m 8668 S  0.0  6.7   0:00.62 xchat-2            
16757 gogiel    15   0 29300  14m 6548 S  0.0  5.9   0:00.34 xfce-mcs-manage    
16766 gogiel    15   0 26232  13m 6808 S  0.0  5.3   0:00.44 xfdesktop          
16797 gogiel    15   0 33560  13m 4736 S  0.0  5.3   0:00.51 xmms               
16798 gogiel    16   0 33560  13m 4736 S  0.0  5.3   0:00.00 xmms               
16799 gogiel    15   0 33560  13m 4736 S  0.0  5.3   0:00.00 xmms               
16803 gogiel    15   0 33560  13m 4736 S  0.0  5.3   0:00.00 xmms               
17024 gogiel    15   0 33560  13m 4736 S  0.0  5.3   0:00.03 xmms               
17025 gogiel    15   0 33560  13m 4736 S  0.3  5.3   0:00.13 xmms               
16781 gogiel    15   0 23824  13m 6700 S  0.0  5.2   0:00.33 gkrellm2
gogiel@gogiel gogiel $ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           250        247          3          0          1         37
-/+ buffers/cache:        208         42
Swap:          509         22        487

ROOT:

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Tasks:  68 total,   2 running,  66 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  1.1% sy,  0.0% ni, 98.9% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    256808k total,   188096k used,    68712k free,    13132k buffers
Swap:   522072k total,    16748k used,   505324k free,    88820k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
17153 root      15   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:03.92 firefox-bin        
17164 root      16   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
17165 root      16   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.01 firefox-bin        
17166 root      16   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
17167 root      15   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
17168 root      16   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
17169 root      16   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
17170 root      16   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
17171 root      16   0 58636  25m  14m S  0.0 10.2   0:00.00 firefox-bin        
17078 root      14  -1  155m  22m 6876 S  1.1  9.0   0:05.47 X                  
17093 root      15   0 21364  10m 7560 S  0.0  4.3   0:00.43 xfce4-panel        
17097 root      15   0 20284  10m 7096 S  0.0  4.0   0:00.97 xfdesktop          
 3659 gogiel    16   0 15348 8856 2816 S  0.0  3.4   0:00.05 gconfd-2           
17116 root      15   0 16340 7936 5804 S  0.0  3.1   0:00.13 gkrellm2           
17119 root      16   0 16340 7936 5804 S  0.0  3.1   0:00.00 gkrellm2           
17088 root      15   0 20124 7848 5676 S  0.0  3.1   0:00.07 xfce-mcs-manage    
16306 gogiel    24   0 12136 7492 1752 S  0.0  2.9   0:00.00 ssh-agent 
bash-2.05b# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           250        189         61          0         13         89
-/+ buffers/cache:         85        164
Swap:          509         16        493

Gogiel · Post by **Gogiel** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:09 pm

Now, after reboot I see that problem exist also when I'm root

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Revellion · Post by **Revellion** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:35 pm

from what i remember X Allocates resources for quick access to em. but Firefox is known to be a real resource leak :\

Hopefully it will be fixed in the next trunk merge

Gogiel · Post by **Gogiel** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:02 pm

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82073