On Tuesday 09 September 2008 21:26:10 Dirk Müller wrote:
I haven't experienced this yet. Which process is eating up memory? Are there messages from the OOM killer in dmesg or /var/log/messages?
There are no messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages. I have 4Gb of memory in my machine and after logging on about 1.2Gb is used. This slowly increases up to about 3.95Gb and then sort of hovers around about that point. Swap doesn't get used. However, if I leave the machine for any period of time the screen goes blank (power saving kicks in) and then there is no way to get it back out of that situation (that I've found) other than to either reboot or restart kdm. The screensaver is not running if I do a process list on the console which continues to work fine. Restarting kdm freezes some of the memory but by no means all of it. If it goes into power saving mode before the memory is all consumed it comes out of it again just fine. X is not freezing as mail continues to be collected by the running kontact. Attached are screenshots of top immediately after booting and the next morning when X just gives me a blank screen. The first list is sorted by virtual memory size, the second by memory usage (RES). -- Regards Scott Newton