On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 22:22 +0100, Clayton wrote: <SNIP> > I will try to run free and vmstat when things are going a little nuts > and get a better picture of memory and swap usage.... the annoying > thing about this problem is that sometimes it works perfectly as > expected. I just ran a test... starting at about 1200Mb RAM and > 1400Mb swap, I launched X-Plane, Firefox, Opera, Seamonkey, VMWare > (running 10.2), and VirtualBox (running WinXP). RAM maxed out and > things started swapping with swap going from 1400Mb to 2200Mb - what I > would call expected normal behaviour. Exited all the applications, > and RAM was released, and some swap was released and it's now sitting > at 1572Mb. If I close down everything, log out and log back in, swap > usage doesn't move.. or if anything swap use increases slightly on > login.now it will never drop below 1572Mb swap until I reboot. I > expect that it'll top over 2000Mb in the next 24 hours... most of that > while sitting idle. > > Now the annoying thing about this prob is.... sometimes for no easily > discernible reason, during normal use (not the stress test I did > above) RAM will not be maxed out, and the system will start paging out > to swap... and swap use will go up.. and not be released. eventually > swap is maxed out, and the computer basically becomes unusable. > Reboot fixes. > Well you did not mention SuSE 9.2 and Evolution so perhaps its one of the services root loads when getting to run level 5. Try two things, first <crtl> <alt> F1 and as root init 3 and let it run about ten minutes then check top as suggested. If its still a problem do init 1 and top as before. Also try this over night reboot to run level 1,3 and 5 on separate nights and see where swap gets to by checking in C-A-F1
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