Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In some cases, my swap is getting used. At one stage, 97% of my RAM was
being used and 47% of swap. Her's free -m every couple of seconds.

On running top, it is gnome-terminal that is on the increase. Memory
usage for this process has gone from 7% to 17.7% in the time taken to
write this email. I have to keep killing my gnome-terminal so turning
off my poor machine.

(It's now 19.9%)

???

             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:           619        405        214          0         64        
93
-/+ buffers/cache:        247        372
Swap:         1278         80       1198
[nicola@bubby pdfs]$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:           619        410        208          0         64        
93
-/+ buffers/cache:        252        366
Swap:         1278         80       1198
[nicola@bubby pdfs]$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:           619        412        206          0         64        
93
-/+ buffers/cache:        254        364
Swap:         1278         80       1198
[nicola@bubby pdfs]$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:           619        419        200          0         64        
93
-/+ buffers/cache:        261        358
Swap:         1278         80       1198


-- 
Dr. Nicola J. Richmond,
Department of Information Studies,
University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP.

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