Earlier today I was reading a webpage while installing an application when suddenly my harddrive starting reading/writing like crazy and my screen practically locked up. I went to tty1 and did "top" to see if there was a single application causing some horrible infinite loop or eating too much memory. Nothing stuck out, so I rebooted my machine. While it was rebooting (since it was still being slow), I looked at the "Mem:" line from "top" and saw that even the 4 GB of swap was exceeded by an entire GB. As of writing this, I only have 20MB of available cache, and it occasionally dips as low as 8MB.
I've done some searching online, and I'm seeing people complaining about X using 250MB of the available memory, and mine is far worse (mine is using a little over 1GB of memory). Some were saying that it is caused by KDE effects (mine are disabled).
Any thoughts?
I luckily have another partition on this computer, and I may nuke my Arch partition and start anew if nobody has any ideas.
Thanks.
Here's what "top" looks like:
Code:
top - 10:26:49 up 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.58, 0.54
Tasks: 132 total, 1 running, 131 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.6%us, 1.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1023672k total, 988564k used, 35108k free, 43600k buffers
Swap: 3903756k total, 0k used, 3903756k free, 333932k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1392 root 20 0 127m 41m 13m S 8 4.2 1:09.17 X
1754 ootawata 20 0 797m 215m 28m S 5 21.6 1:34.22 rekonq
1570 ootawata 20 0 443m 44m 31m S 1 4.4 0:10.40 kwin
1591 ootawata 20 0 734m 50m 28m S 1 5.0 0:07.77 plasma-desktop
1695 ootawata 20 0 367m 30m 15m S 1 3.1 0:06.51 konsole
1691 ootawata 20 0 392m 28m 16m S 0 2.8 0:00.27 kget
1858 ootawata 20 0 55088 13m 8184 S 0 1.4 0:06.39 npviewer.bin
1 root 20 0 3896 604 504 S 0 0.1 0:00.29 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.12 events/0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 events/1
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr
15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pm
16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/0
19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/1
20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_hotplug
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd
25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 kswapd0
26 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd
27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto/0
30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto/1
431 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
441 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 ata_sff/0
454 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_sff/1
491 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.27 scsi_eh_0
506 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
524 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2
530 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_3
536 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_4
544 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_5
609 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 jbd2/sda3-8
610 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ext4-dio-unwrit
611 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ext4-dio-unwrit
728 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 flush-8:0
758 root 20 0 3892 576 488 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 agetty
759 root 20 0 3892 576 488 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 agetty
760 root 20 0 3892 580 488 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 agetty
761 root 20 0 3892 580 488 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 agetty
