[Bug 498405] amarokapp causes page thrashing

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498405 User estellnb@gmail.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498405#c2 --- Comment #2 from Elmar Stellnberger ATK 2009-05-19 10:31:10 MDT --- Killing amarok does in a fact not help here. Nonetheless I should have tried 'init 3' before because terminating KDE results in the memory to be freed an in page thrashing to disoccur. So it is in deed most likely a problem of some common KDE3 data structure not of the kernel.

killall -9 amarokapp ps ax|grep -i amarok 7602 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep -i amarok free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2004 1991 13 0 4 95 -/+ buffers/cache: 1890 114 Swap: 3812 1542 2269 init 3 free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2004 195 1808 0 6 131 -/+ buffers/cache: 57 1947 Swap: 3812 11 3800

Nonetheless auto-swap-out if that at all should be of use in some cases could be disabled for apps like databases or the backbone of KDE (but then it is of little use). Perhaps KDE should simply be forbidden to allocate that much common memory. It seems to be reasonable to assume that common data structures can not be swapped out. Then perhaps it is up to KDE trying to allocate this as non-swappable memory? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.