Hi,
since a few days my system eats up memory, uses SWAP space and gets
slow.
It might depend on xorg-server, but I don't know why.
On a nearly idle system (except xorg-server and some XTerms) I have
MEM | tot 7.5G | free 2.9G | cache 1.2G | buff 114.6M |
slab 498.0M | shmem 848.3M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M
(My system has 8G memory installed)
Adding up all terms except 'tot' I get 5.6G where are the remaining 2G?
And why is shmem 0.85G - I have even seen a value of 4G for shmem
although all tempfs filesystems
were nearly empty.
When I stop the X-server I get
MEM | tot 7.5G | free 6.9G | cache 387.4M | buff 118.4M |
slab 72.0M | shmem 1.4M | vmbal 0.0M | hptot 0.0M |
I haven't seen this in the last 10 years!
I'm running kernel 4.11.0-rc5 but I doubt it has to do with the kernel
since the values without a running xorg-server are for the same
kernel.
Has anybody seen something similar?
Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut
