It would be a problem if I left it on this long regularly, and indeed it is a
problem at the moment because I need to leave it on and at this rate I'll be
using swap space to do actual work tomorrow just because it's powered on, which
will be slow and wear out the SSD that my swap space has to
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:01:20 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
> but [...] using 20GB of RAM with almost nothing open [...] is not good
> behaviour
Why not? Is there an actual problem in the day to day use of the system?
Or is the problem that you've seen some numbers you don't like the look
of /
On 10/09/2020 21:56, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Using swap is not a bad thing in itself (quite the opposite in many cases).
>
> The actual process of swapping is expensive, though, and you want to
> minimise that.
>
> One way to see whether you have a lot of swapping going on is to run
> "vmstat 1"
Using swap is not a bad thing in itself (quite the opposite in many cases).
The actual process of swapping is expensive, though, and you want to
minimise that.
One way to see whether you have a lot of swapping going on is to run
"vmstat 1" (you don't need to be root). That will produce a new
On 10/09/2020 21:17, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:03:21 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
>
>> Any more ideas? This has definitely revealed something interesting, just
>> not sure what it is yet/what to do about it.
>
> You don't need to do anything about it.
Well, it keeps going
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:03:21 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
> Any more ideas? This has definitely revealed something interesting, just
> not sure what it is yet/what to do about it.
You don't need to do anything about it.
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On 10/09/2020 15:44, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> On 10/09/2020 15:29, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> ‘sudo slabtop -osc’ will give a breakdown.
> Ignore previous message in moderation queue, using ix.io now.
>
> Okay, that yields:
>
> http://ix.io/2x4T
>
> The total is much smaller than the number
On 10/09/2020 15:29, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> ‘sudo slabtop -osc’ will give a breakdown.
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Okay, that yields:
http://ix.io/2x4T
The total is much smaller than the number in /proc/meminfo (just
verified it hasn't changed drastically).
Hi Hamish,
> On desktop I seem to have a very high number for "SUnreclaim" in
> /proc/meminfo:
>
> MemTotal: 32812004 kB
> ...
> Slab: 16832040 kB
> SUnreclaim: 16434568 kB
‘sudo slabtop -osc’ will give a breakdown.
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On 10/09/2020 15:07, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Hamish,
>
>> This is strange. If I close eg Firefox, the all the (20+!) listings
>> for that process go away.
> Did you have quite a lot of tabs in that Firefox? It uses multiple
> processes these days, roughly number of tabs plus a few.
Yeah, I
Hi Hamish,
> This is strange. If I close eg Firefox, the all the (20+!) listings
> for that process go away.
Did you have quite a lot of tabs in that Firefox? It uses multiple
processes these days, roughly number of tabs plus a few.
> What's weird is they all have PIDs, but there aren't that
On 10/09/2020 14:17, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
NB: On desktop I seem to have a very high number for "SUnreclaim" in
/proc/meminfo:
MemTotal: 32812004 kB
MemFree: 8619976 kB
MemAvailable: 9572924 kB
Buffers: 61772 kB
Cached: 1061212 kB
SwapCached:
On 10/09/2020 14:12, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:07:00 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
>
>> No difference to the output.
> Surprising. Here:
>
> $ ps aux|wc -l
> 364
> $ ps maux|wc -l
> 1872
That shows a difference similar to yours, but there is no difference in
those use cases
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:07:00 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
> No difference to the output.
Surprising. Here:
$ ps aux|wc -l
364
$ ps maux|wc -l
1872
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On 10/09/2020 14:03, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:57:09 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
>
>> ps aux
> Doesn't show threads. Try "ps maux" (or, if you prefer, "ps -Lef").
No difference to the output.
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> ps aux
Doesn't show threads. Try "ps maux" (or, if you prefer, "ps -Lef").
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On 10/09/2020 13:20, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:09:51 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
>
>> Using htop in that way seems to show processes that aren't currently
>> running any more - like previous invocations of firefox, in the stats.
>> Is that expected?
> Not expected nor
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:09:51 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said:
> Using htop in that way seems to show processes that aren't currently
> running any more - like previous invocations of firefox, in the stats.
> Is that expected?
Not expected nor correct. htop shows processes that exist in the
On 10/09/2020 13:12, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 September 2020 12:59:49 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
>> "free" should report physical "real" memory usage right? If I'm mistaken
>> there it could explain the numbers. The NAS box had only 14M or 256M
>> free earlier despite showing
On Thursday, 10 September 2020 12:59:49 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> "free" should report physical "real" memory usage right? If I'm mistaken
> there it could explain the numbers. The NAS box had only 14M or 256M
> free earlier despite showing no process using that much memory. It
> usually
On 10/09/2020 12:09, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> On 10/09/2020 12:03, Keith Edmunds wrote:
>> What problem are you trying to solve?
>>
>> If you're just curious about memory usage, run htop, press F6 and sort by
>> M_RESIDENT or, if you're feeling more adventurous, run atop and press M
>> (not
On 10/09/2020 12:03, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> What problem are you trying to solve?
>
> If you're just curious about memory usage, run htop, press F6 and sort by
> M_RESIDENT or, if you're feeling more adventurous, run atop and press M
> (not m). Either will show you how much memory each process is
What problem are you trying to solve?
If you're just curious about memory usage, run htop, press F6 and sort by
M_RESIDENT or, if you're feeling more adventurous, run atop and press M
(not m). Either will show you how much memory each process is using, with
htop giving a less detailed but
Hi all,
Sorry for spamming the list a bit lately! :)
Another issue I've had on my desktop, is that after being powered on for
after maybe 4 hours, my memory usage starts to climb, but no process is
listed as having used much memory.
After a few days, this is what "free -h" shows:
Hi all,
Sorry for spamming the list a bit lately! :)
Another issue I've had on my desktop, is that after being powered on for
after maybe 4 hours, my memory usage starts to climb, but no process is
listed as having used much memory.
After a few days, this is what "free -h" shows:
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