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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] artsd memory/swap creep
From: Richard Pace <rpace () sbcglobal ! net>
Date: 2006-02-27 16:46:19
Message-ID: 200602270846.20378.rpace () sbcglobal ! net
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On Thursday 16 February 2006 06:28, Richard Pace wrote:
> Hi:
> SuSE 9.3 with KDE 3.5.0 level 'a' with 384MB real and 768MB Swap file.
>
I didn't see any response to this... However it appears that bug report 119504
covers this issue.
Richard
> The majority of the times when I've had to unexpectedly boot have been
> related to the swap file being used completely and the system goes into
> thrashing mode - a lot of disk I/O and not much can be done.
>
> I usually keep KsysGuard up and I noticed the last time this happened,
> artsd seemed to have an unusually large VmSize - I don't remember the exact
> number now.
>
> So now I watch the VmSize in KsysGuard. Anytime I see artsd usage get
> large, say 200MB (I assume KsysGuard reports in KB units), I restart artsd
> from the KDE control center. That bumps the artsd VmSize usage down to
> around 10Mb and frees up a lot of SWAP space.
>
> It seems each time a sound notification arrives, say from KMAIL or KOPETE,
> the artsd VmSize increases (also VmRss) monotonically - never goes back
> down until I restart artsd ("never" might be too strong - sometimes the
> number backs off a little, but most of the time not). So I restart artsd
> about every 3-4 days.
>
> Anyone notice this behavior? and/or has this been reported before?
--
Regards,
Richard
Registered LINUX user #406542
http://counter.li.org.
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