On one computer, xfce4-panel is using 1.4 GB.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 View of top, sorting by memory: top - 13:27:09 up 12 days, 9:30, 5 users, load average: 5.12, 3.70, 2.15 Tasks: 408 total, 4 running, 404 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 14.3 us, 7.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 24.6 id, 53.5 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 7995344 total, 857392 free, 5739144 used, 1398808 buff/cache KiB Swap: 9446396 total, 9354748 free, 91648 used. 1616044 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 3971 cer 20 0 1702692 1.122g 12312 0 S 0.000 1:13.24 xfce4-panel <===== 5154 cer 20 0 3924304 1.033g 33148 0 S 0.000 69:28.87 WebExtensions 4021 cer 20 0 4299592 922428 129636 0 S 8.125 552:36.75 firefox 5103 cer 20 0 3893680 398436 102932 0 R 25.62 2938:04 Web Content 19778 cer 20 0 2644216 355808 57124 0 S 3.125 1470:05 kodi-x11 18478 cer 20 0 3141844 335740 101772 0 S 0.625 42:10.54 Web Content 19741 cer 20 0 3250292 228088 39508 0 S 0.625 163:18.54 Web Content I'm very surprised by the high memmory usage of xfce4-panel. 1.2 Gigs? Process tree (ps -fx): PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND ... 2429 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/sddm 2432 tty7 Ssl+ 304:20 \_ /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{cb0ab23f-eda4-4c5d-bf88-a9504ffda949} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 3819 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth567d414c-8028-40ca-97ed-a8779b3d8335 --id 1 --start startxfce4 --user cer 3835 ? Sl 0:04 \_ xfce4-session 3888 ? Ss 0:04 \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon --keep-display /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 3889 ? Ss 0:34 \_ /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon --keep-display /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 3945 ? Sl 88:42 \_ xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 27ef593e4-abdd-45de-87e1-06f1cda34cda 3971 ? Sl 1:13 \_ xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2c36722ba-067e-4ae0-8417-a8245488ea39 <====== 3986 ? Sl 2:39 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libwhiskermenu.so 1 16777223 whiskermenu Whisker Menu Show a menu to easily access installed applications 3991 ? Sl 18:15 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libmultiload.so 15 16777224 multiload Multiload A system load monitor that graphs processor, memory, and swap space use, plus network and disk activity. 3992 ? Sl 20:09 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so 6 16777225 pulseaudio PulseAudio Plugin Adjust the audio volume of the PulseAudio sound system 3993 ? Sl 0:28 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libxfce4powermanager.so 13 16777226 power-manager-plugin Power Manager Plugin Display the battery levels of your devices and control the brightness of your display 3995 ? Sl 0:02 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 7 16777227 systray Notification Area Area where notification icons appear 3982 ? Sl 0:00 \_ Thunar --sm-client-id 2dfa4a24a-8d69-4a3d-a93d-5f51febf0e5e --daemon cer@Isengard:~> uptime 13:32:22 up 12 days 9:36, 5 users, load average: 4.56, 4.13, 2.81 How can it be? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYEoO1xwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVhFwAn0XgAg1KtZqP1FSQdgAK OQ5hNRhGAKCSL32uSBCbbYc4QxjjPAdXo4HtzQ== =8ukM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2021-04-01 at 22:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 3/11/21 6:36 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 3971 cer 20 0 1702692 1.122g 12312 0 S 0.000 1:13.24 xfce4-panel <=====
smells like a potential memory leak...
Absolutely. The status now is: top - 05:02:03 up 34 days, 5 min, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.47, 0.43 Tasks: 394 total, 1 running, 393 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 10.2 us, 3.8 sy, 1.4 ni, 84.5 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.953 total, 1201.309 free, 4222.621 used, 2384.023 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 4575.762 free, 4649.234 used. 3042.805 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4021 cer 20 0 5360976 1.269g 58800 637292 S 1.316 16.64 1348:15 firefox 3971 cer 20 0 3723216 912912 9656 1.917g S 0.000 11.42 3:15.31 xfce4-panel The memory usage is lower, but has 1.9 gigs on swap. It must be one component of the panel, though, not the entire thing. No idea how to find what. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHIEARECADIWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYGaKDBQccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQGdteC5lcwAKCRC1MxgcbY1H1RZoAJ9dnKvesnxzbfk1+idnBql0Yg9LZQCg lCJS40H2SX+kb3D+x3CftQyTIOo= =GMRR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 05:05:48 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@gmx.es> wrote:
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On Thursday, 2021-04-01 at 22:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 3/11/21 6:36 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 3971 cer 20 0 1702692 1.122g 12312 0 S 0.000 1:13.24 xfce4-panel <=====
smells like a potential memory leak...
Absolutely.
The status now is:
top - 05:02:03 up 34 days, 5 min, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.47, 0.43 Tasks: 394 total, 1 running, 393 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 10.2 us, 3.8 sy, 1.4 ni, 84.5 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.953 total, 1201.309 free, 4222.621 used, 2384.023 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 4575.762 free, 4649.234 used. 3042.805 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4021 cer 20 0 5360976 1.269g 58800 637292 S 1.316 16.64 1348:15 firefox 3971 cer 20 0 3723216 912912 9656 1.917g S 0.000 11.42 3:15.31 xfce4-panel
The memory usage is lower, but has 1.9 gigs on swap.
It must be one component of the panel, though, not the entire thing. No idea how to find what.
strace -p 637292 2> >(grep malloc) cheap and cheerful, no idea whether it would show anything useful Or of course valgrind ...
On 02/04/2021 13.39, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 05:05:48 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
It must be one component of the panel, though, not the entire thing. No idea how to find what.
strace -p 637292 2> >(grep malloc)
So far, nothing. I'll leave it running and see.
cheap and cheerful, no idea whether it would show anything useful
Or of course valgrind ...
I don't know how to use it... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 13:50:22 +0200 "Carlos E.R." <robin.listas@gmx.es> wrote:
On 02/04/2021 13.39, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 05:05:48 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
It must be one component of the panel, though, not the entire thing. No idea how to find what.
strace -p 637292 2> >(grep malloc)
So far, nothing. I'll leave it running and see.
cheap and cheerful, no idea whether it would show anything useful
Or of course valgrind ...
I don't know how to use it...
An opportunity to learn :) Give you a break from your infinite patience trying to get printers to work:)
On 02/04/2021 14.10, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 13:50:22 +0200 "Carlos E.R." <> wrote:
On 02/04/2021 13.39, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 05:05:48 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
It must be one component of the panel, though, not the entire thing. No idea how to find what.
strace -p 637292 2> >(grep malloc)
So far, nothing. I'll leave it running and see.
cheap and cheerful, no idea whether it would show anything useful
Or of course valgrind ...
I don't know how to use it...
An opportunity to learn :)
Give you a break from your infinite patience trying to get printers to work:)
Touché :-D I googled "valgrind for dummies", found hits :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Am 11.03.21 um 13:36 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
View of top, sorting by memory:
top - 13:27:09 up 12 days, 9:30, 5 users, load average: 5.12, 3.70, 2.15 Tasks: 408 total, 4 running, 404 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 14.3 us, 7.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 24.6 id, 53.5 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 7995344 total, 857392 free, 5739144 used, 1398808 buff/cache KiB Swap: 9446396 total, 9354748 free, 91648 used. 1616044 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 3971 cer 20 0 1702692 1.122g 12312 0 S 0.000 1:13.24 xfce4-panel <===== 5154 cer 20 0 3924304 1.033g 33148 0 S 0.000 69:28.87 WebExtensions 4021 cer 20 0 4299592 922428 129636 0 S 8.125 552:36.75 firefox 5103 cer 20 0 3893680 398436 102932 0 R 25.62 2938:04 Web Content 19778 cer 20 0 2644216 355808 57124 0 S 3.125 1470:05 kodi-x11 18478 cer 20 0 3141844 335740 101772 0 S 0.625 42:10.54 Web Content 19741 cer 20 0 3250292 228088 39508 0 S 0.625 163:18.54 Web Content
I'm very surprised by the high memmory usage of xfce4-panel. 1.2 Gigs?
Process tree (ps -fx):
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND ... 2429 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/sddm 2432 tty7 Ssl+ 304:20 \_ /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/sddm/{cb0ab23f-eda4-4c5d-bf88-a9504ffda949} -background none -noreset -displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7 3819 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth567d414c-8028-40ca-97ed-a8779b3d8335 --id 1 --start startxfce4 --user cer 3835 ? Sl 0:04 \_ xfce4-session 3888 ? Ss 0:04 \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon --keep-display /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 3889 ? Ss 0:34 \_ /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon --keep-display /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 3945 ? Sl 88:42 \_ xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 27ef593e4-abdd-45de-87e1-06f1cda34cda 3971 ? Sl 1:13 \_ xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2c36722ba-067e-4ae0-8417-a8245488ea39 <====== 3986 ? Sl 2:39 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libwhiskermenu.so 1 16777223 whiskermenu Whisker Menu Show a menu to easily access installed applications 3991 ? Sl 18:15 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libmultiload.so 15 16777224 multiload Multiload A system load monitor that graphs processor, memory, and swap space use, plus network and disk activity. 3992 ? Sl 20:09 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so 6 16777225 pulseaudio PulseAudio Plugin Adjust the audio volume of the PulseAudio sound system 3993 ? Sl 0:28 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libxfce4powermanager.so 13 16777226 power-manager-plugin Power Manager Plugin Display the battery levels of your devices and control the brightness of your display 3995 ? Sl 0:02 | \_ /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 7 16777227 systray Notification Area Area where notification icons appear 3982 ? Sl 0:00 \_ Thunar --sm-client-id 2dfa4a24a-8d69-4a3d-a93d-5f51febf0e5e --daemon
cer@Isengard:~> uptime 13:32:22 up 12 days 9:36, 5 users, load average: 4.56, 4.13, 2.81
How can it be?
Hi, years ago I had that problem on xfce4 and it was somehow linked to the theme I used. I don't remember which theme was the trouble maker but changing all the theme related settings might help you here. Karl
On 02/04/2021 16.12, Karl Sinn wrote:
Am 11.03.21 um 13:36 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
View of top, sorting by memory:
cer@Isengard:~> uptime 13:32:22 up 12 days 9:36, 5 users, load average: 4.56, 4.13, 2.81
How can it be?
Hi,
years ago I had that problem on xfce4 and it was somehow linked to the theme I used. I don't remember which theme was the trouble maker but changing all the theme related settings might help you here.
I didn't change the theme... but the machine was upgraded to 15.2, and often the theme changes. Thanks, I'll check the theme later. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2021-04-02 at 16:16 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 02/04/2021 16.12, Karl Sinn wrote:
Am 11.03.21 um 13:36 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
View of top, sorting by memory:
cer@Isengard:~> uptime 13:32:22 up 12 days 9:36, 5 users, load average: 4.56, 4.13, 2.81
How can it be?
Hi,
years ago I had that problem on xfce4 and it was somehow linked to the theme I used. I don't remember which theme was the trouble maker but changing all the theme related settings might help you here.
I didn't change the theme... but the machine was upgraded to 15.2, and often the theme changes.
Thanks, I'll check the theme later.
I changed the theme, but xfce4-panel keeps wasting memory. top - 13:32:05 up 22 days, 13:45, 3 users, load average: 7.99, 7.26, 7.42 Tasks: 413 total, 2 running, 411 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.3 us, 2.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 37.6 id, 56.9 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.965 total, 488.645 free, 4484.973 used, 2834.348 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 7805.246 free, 1419.750 used. 2776.719 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3804 cer 20 0 2653836 1.278g 7884 767420 S 0.000 16.77 2:09.32 xfce4-panel 24940 cer 20 0 3907428 885048 28412 26636 S 0.000 11.07 69:03.62 WebExtensions 25110 cer 20 0 3303232 366248 155708 9884 R 2.961 4.581 528:45.45 Web Content 16664 cer 20 0 3006560 328404 39128 64288 S 0.987 4.107 2942:40 kodi-x11 25466 cer 20 0 3231700 326160 72572 3456 S 0.000 4.079 200:55.81 Web Content 24793 cer 20 0 3723248 306620 126600 8736 S 0.658 3.835 363:58.81 firefox 18792 root 20 0 246432 204624 676 316 D 0.000 2.559 14:50.95 rsyncd 18793 root 20 0 346756 151124 808 316 S 0.000 1.890 25:47.20 rsyncd 25017 cer 20 0 2757736 130036 37484 4360 S 0.000 1.626 1:53.85 Privileged Cont 24894 cer 20 0 3033048 94176 20856 17048 S 0.000 1.178 13:42.17 Web Content ... xfce4-panel is the heaviest memory user in the machine. For the moment, the only tool I have is to hibernate and restore the machine. Will try now. op - 13:47:20 up 22 days, 14:00, 3 users, load average: 1.34, 4.71, 6.38 Tasks: 525 total, 1 running, 524 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.1 us, 2.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 94.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.965 total, 4602.695 free, 2586.297 used, 618.973 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 6347.535 free, 2877.461 used. 4668.051 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3804 cer 20 0 2654796 669336 10808 1.375g S 0.000 8.372 2:09.48 xfce4-panel 24940 cer 20 0 3907428 631300 16052 268204 S 0.000 7.896 69:04.00 WebExtensions 25110 cer 20 0 3303232 287180 111416 45568 S 2.614 3.592 529:07.97 Web Content Well, now 1.375g of memory used by xfce4-panel is swapped out, and available RAM is doubled. Still xfce4-panel is using more than half a gigabyte of RAM, which seems a tremendous waste. ... Well, I just used "reset panel defaults", we'll see what happens in two weeks. For now, the item is gone from "top". top - 14:14:10 up 22 days, 14:27, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.68, 1.73 Tasks: 399 total, 1 running, 398 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.0 us, 1.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 95.4 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.965 total, 6001.270 free, 924.289 used, 882.406 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 8962.785 free, 262.211 used. 6452.980 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6574 cer 20 0 2704104 131996 108564 0 S 0.000 1.651 0:01.54 firefox 6841 cer 20 0 1079624 81532 55252 0 S 0.000 1.020 0:01.22 hp-systray 6834 cer 20 0 969280 59708 47340 0 S 0.000 0.747 0:00.60 evolution-alarm 6497 cer 20 0 1205844 59276 40716 0 S 0.984 0.741 0:06.40 xfwm4 6866 cer 20 0 977800 58988 49200 0 S 0.000 0.738 0:00.65 kdeconnectd 6585 cer 20 0 950352 58452 36476 0 S 0.984 0.731 0:05.28 xfce4-terminal 6 gigs of available memory, much better. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHkEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYKBoCxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVIXEAnApc6IwpmUizaEVQsQWE rR/eAXOyAJd1ZyrpgNZ9lbHNd87EOac721dF =Xi+w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2021-05-16 at 02:32 +0200, I wrote:
On Friday, 2021-04-02 at 16:16 +0200, I wrote:
On 02/04/2021 16.12, Karl Sinn wrote:
Am 11.03.21 um 13:36 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
View of top, sorting by memory:
cer@Isengard:~> uptime 13:32:22 up 12 days 9:36, 5 users, load average: 4.56, 4.13, 2.81
How can it be?
Hi,
years ago I had that problem on xfce4 and it was somehow linked to the theme I used. I don't remember which theme was the trouble maker but changing all the theme related settings might help you here.
I didn't change the theme... but the machine was upgraded to 15.2, and often the theme changes.
Thanks, I'll check the theme later.
I changed the theme, but xfce4-panel keeps wasting memory.
top - 13:32:05 up 22 days, 13:45, 3 users, load average: 7.99, 7.26, 7.42 Tasks: 413 total, 2 running, 411 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.3 us, 2.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 37.6 id, 56.9 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.965 total, 488.645 free, 4484.973 used, 2834.348 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 7805.246 free, 1419.750 used. 2776.719 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3804 cer 20 0 2653836 1.278g 7884 767420 S 0.000 16.77 2:09.32 xfce4-panel 24940 cer 20 0 3907428 885048 28412 26636 S 0.000 11.07 69:03.62 WebExtensions 25110 cer 20 0 3303232 366248 155708 9884 R 2.961 4.581 528:45.45 Web Content 16664 cer 20 0 3006560 328404 39128 64288 S 0.987 4.107 2942:40 kodi-x11 25466 cer 20 0 3231700 326160 72572 3456 S 0.000 4.079 200:55.81 Web Content 24793 cer 20 0 3723248 306620 126600 8736 S 0.658 3.835 363:58.81 firefox 18792 root 20 0 246432 204624 676 316 D 0.000 2.559 14:50.95 rsyncd 18793 root 20 0 346756 151124 808 316 S 0.000 1.890 25:47.20 rsyncd 25017 cer 20 0 2757736 130036 37484 4360 S 0.000 1.626 1:53.85 Privileged Cont 24894 cer 20 0 3033048 94176 20856 17048 S 0.000 1.178 13:42.17 Web Content ...
xfce4-panel is the heaviest memory user in the machine. For the moment, the only tool I have is to hibernate and restore the machine. Will try now.
op - 13:47:20 up 22 days, 14:00, 3 users, load average: 1.34, 4.71, 6.38 Tasks: 525 total, 1 running, 524 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.1 us, 2.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 94.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.965 total, 4602.695 free, 2586.297 used, 618.973 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 6347.535 free, 2877.461 used. 4668.051 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3804 cer 20 0 2654796 669336 10808 1.375g S 0.000 8.372 2:09.48 xfce4-panel 24940 cer 20 0 3907428 631300 16052 268204 S 0.000 7.896 69:04.00 WebExtensions 25110 cer 20 0 3303232 287180 111416 45568 S 2.614 3.592 529:07.97 Web Content
Well, now 1.375g of memory used by xfce4-panel is swapped out, and available RAM is doubled.
Still xfce4-panel is using more than half a gigabyte of RAM, which seems a tremendous waste.
...
Well, I just used "reset panel defaults", we'll see what happens in two weeks. For now, the item is gone from "top".
top - 14:14:10 up 22 days, 14:27, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.68, 1.73 Tasks: 399 total, 1 running, 398 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.0 us, 1.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 95.4 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7807.965 total, 6001.270 free, 924.289 used, 882.406 buff/cache MiB Swap: 9224.996 total, 8962.785 free, 262.211 used. 6452.980 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6574 cer 20 0 2704104 131996 108564 0 S 0.000 1.651 0:01.54 firefox 6841 cer 20 0 1079624 81532 55252 0 S 0.000 1.020 0:01.22 hp-systray 6834 cer 20 0 969280 59708 47340 0 S 0.000 0.747 0:00.60 evolution-alarm 6497 cer 20 0 1205844 59276 40716 0 S 0.984 0.741 0:06.40 xfwm4 6866 cer 20 0 977800 58988 49200 0 S 0.000 0.738 0:00.65 kdeconnectd 6585 cer 20 0 950352 58452 36476 0 S 0.984 0.731 0:05.28 xfce4-terminal
6 gigs of available memory, much better.
I had forgotten about this. But since the past night I am running a heavy backup process that was going slow, and I looked at memory usage. xfce4-panel had more than 2 Gigs in swap, and 1.6 in resident memory. It occurred to me that it might be possible to restart it, and yes, it is trivial: xfce4-panel -r And my backup process is going faster, more ram for buffers/cache. At worst, I might put that restart in a cronjob. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHIEARECADIWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYN2WbhQccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQGdteC5lcwAKCRC1MxgcbY1H1dLnAJ4hLd9VWqCXfSUqpOZOkZOZDqirKACf baYkPWO3JnKfjBYCAURMgnqKAjk= =fsi1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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