On Wednesday 12 December 2001 5:43 pm, Robert Fox wrote:
> I have an AMD 850 based MB (Asus A7V) with 768 Meg of memory.
>
> The swap file is 230 Meg. Up until recently, the system NEVER touched
> the swap file (always stayed free) because I have so much real memory.
> The machine would stay on for days with little or no swap useage.
>
> Now with a recent kernel (2.4.16.2mdk-1-1mdk) and a week old Cooker
> install I see the swap file is being used over time. Currently, I see
> 629M free from 768M RAM and 165M free from 230M swap.
I got curious so I installed and started flightgear, I have a 933MHz PIII and
256 ECC RAM at 100MHz, but no swap was used, as shown by k-procman, and the
sound from flightgear was coming for 3s and then was cut for some time back
for some seconds and then gone again.
ps aux shows that kapmd is eating all my power.
regards
guran
here is a report:
[guran@One09 guran]$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 1428 472 ?SDec12 0:04 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [keventd]
root 3 6.9 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 24:01 [kapm-idled]
root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN Dec12 0:00
[ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:04 [kswapd]
root 6 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [bdflush]
root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [kupdated]
root 8 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW< Dec12 0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
root14 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:01 [kjournald]
root85 0.0 0.2 1572 604 ?SDec12 0:00 devfsd /dev
root 226 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 241 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [kjournald]
root 242 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [kjournald]
root 243 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [kjournald]
root 551 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec12 0:00 [khubd]
root 1001 0.0 0.2 1532 560 ?SDec12 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 1010 0.0 0.1 2040 492 ?SDec12 0:00 klogd -2
daemon1139 0.0 0.1 1456 496 ?SDec12 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 1164 0.0 0.7 1904 1896 ?SL Dec12 0:00 ntpd -A
root 1192 0.0 0.2 2688 536 ?SDec12 0:00 sshd
root 1453 0.0 0.2 3788 632 ?SDec12 0:00
/usr/lib/postfix/master
postfix 1462 0.0 0.2 3944 764 ?SDec12 0:00 qmgr -l -t
fifo -u
postfix 1463 0.0 0.2 3904 724 ?SDec12 0:00 tlsmgr -l -t
fifo -u
root 1483 0.0 0.1 2792 460 ?SDec12 0:00
/usr/bin/prelude_report -qd -P /var/root 1494 0.0 0.3 6384 824 ?
SDec12 0:07 /usr/bin/prelude -qd -P /var/run/preroot 1495 0.0
0.1 2792 464 ?SDec12 0:00 /usr/bin/prelude_report -qd -P
/var/root 1496 0.0 0.3 6384 824 ?SDec12 0:00
/usr/bin/prelude -qd -P /var/run/preroot 1497 0.0 0.3 6384 824 ?
SDec12 0:00 /usr/bin/prelude -qd -P /var/run/preroot 1576 0.0
0.2 1644 596 ?SDec12 0:00 crond
root 1601 0.0 0.4 6808 1232 ?SDec12 0:00 /usr/bin/perl
/usr/share/webmin/minixfs 1626 0.0 1.0 7180 2764 ?SDec12
0:03 xfs -port -1 -daemon -droppriv -userroot 1737 0.0 0.3 2420
880 tty1 SDec12 0:00 login -- guran
root 1738 0.0 0.1 1396 380 tty2 SDec12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
tty2
root 1739 0.0 0.1 1396 380 tty3 SDec12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
tty3
root 1740 0.0 0.1 1396 380 tty4 SDec12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
tty4
root 1741 0.0 0.1 1396 380 tty5 SDec12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
tty5
root 1742 0.0 0.1 1396 380 tty6 SDec12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
tty6
guran 1796 0.0 0.4 2820 1132 vc/1 SDec12 0:00 -bash
guran 2080 0.0 2.1 22212 5576 ?SDec12 0:00 kdeinit:
dcopserver --nosid --suicidguran 4943 0.0 0.2 2408 548 vc/1 S
Dec12 0:00 KDE /usr/bin/startkde
root 4959 0.4 8.0 200876 20608 ? SDec12 1:09 /etc/X11/X :0
guran 4961 0.0 0.3 2520 928 vc/1 SDec12 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/startkde
guran 5106 0.0 0.5 22400 1424 ?SDec12 0:00 kdeinit:
Running...
guran 5109 0.0 2.6 23476 6796 ?SDec12 0:00 kdeinit:
klauncher
guran 5112 0.0 3.1 23712 8068 ?SDec12 0:00 kdeinit: kded
guran 5233 0.0 0.8 6188 2212 ?SDec12 0:04 /usr/bin/artsd
-F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -guran 5247 0.0 2.9 25856 7480 ?SDec12
0:00 kdeinit: knotify
guran 5264 0.0 1.4 17744 3604 vc/1 SDec12 0:00 ksmserver
--restore
guran 5300 0.0 3.3 24280 8496 ?SDec12 0:00 kdei