2.2.9: strange memory behavior

[Romano Giannetti]

Hi all, 

        I do not know if I am having alucinations, but it's possible
that in some subtle way kernel vm affects memory footprint of
applications? I am running gnome (same version) till 2.2.5, 
and never saw this: 

(0)pern:~/worktmp/asimov% free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers  cached
Mem:         63188      61584       1604      27328       1308  15744
-/+ buffers/cache:      44532      18656
Swap:       128484      83900      44584
(0)pern:~/worktmp/asimov% uptime
 12:03pm  up 3 days, 37 min,  7 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
(0)pern:~/worktmp/asimov% ps auxmt
PID   TTY MAJFLT MINFLT   TRS   DRS  SIZE  SWAP   RSS  SHRD LIB   DT   COMMAND
13727   1  40424  99614   248 12116 61784 49420 12364   696   0 2917  (enlightenment)

System is responsive and ok, but I am quite preoccupied for when the 
swap will be filled... I am thinking to a change in the kernel that 
triggers very bad some leakage in gnome-libs. I am quite positive 
that it is the first time my system is using more than a few MBytes 
of swap. 

             Romano 

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Romano Giannetti             -  Univ. Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain)
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