Comment 25 for bug 607474

Very interesting!

Julian, may I also ask you to attach the output of #cat /proc/<pid of
xfce4-volumed>/maps and #cat /proc/<pid of xfsettings>/maps ? It will tell
the whole list of libraries that are opened by each app.

2014-05-06 10:56 GMT+01:00 Julian Gilbey <email address hidden>:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> I've just come back in, opened my computer and waited and waited and
> waited for it to respond ;-)
> With xfce4-volumed-pulse, things are as bad as before: with top sorted by
> %MEM:
>
> top - 10:36:36 up 8 days, 34 min, 5 users, load average: 16.32, 19.37,
> 15.93
> Tasks: 249 total, 1 running, 248 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 5.7 us, 1.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 24.5 id, 68.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
> 0.0 st
> KiB Mem: 3964008 total, 3874228 used, 89780 free, 3040 buffers
> KiB Swap: 9760764 total, 8485812 used, 1274952 free. 150392 cached Mem
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 10701 jdg 20 0 8702408 1.234g 1164 D 0.0 32.7 73:15.19
> xfce4-volu+
> 10608 jdg 20 0 2560556 1.144g 12604 S 0.3 30.3 32:22.79
> xfsettingsd
> 11137 jdg 20 0 1454064 345380 9332 D 0.3 8.7 21:02.01
> iceweasel
>
>
> Then ps aux shows:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> jdg 10701 1.0 32.3 8701956 1281372 ? Dsl May01 73:13
> xfce4-volumed-pulse
> jdg 24918 0.0 0.0 377880 792 ? S<l Apr30 0:00
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>
> But top sorted by %CPU shows very little of interest:
>
> top - 10:36:48 up 8 days, 34 min, 5 users, load average: 14.91, 18.91,
> 15.83
> Tasks: 248 total, 1 running, 247 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 2.9 us, 1.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 41.5 id, 54.6 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
> 0.0 st
> KiB Mem: 3964008 total, 3836104 used, 127904 free, 1748 buffers
> KiB Swap: 9760764 total, 8489832 used, 1270932 free. 139944 cached Mem
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 30731 root 20 0 76676 1880 840 S 6.6 0.0 399:25.52
> cups-brows+
> 10401 root 20 0 278536 19896 5396 S 3.7 0.5 372:56.88 Xorg
> 18022 root 20 0 85228 3072 904 S 3.0 0.1 91:17.50 cupsd
> 11059 jdg 20 0 582780 9336 4248 S 1.3 0.2 0:59.45
> xfce4-term+
> 10608 jdg 20 0 2560556 1.142g 12604 D 0.7 30.2 32:22.83
> xfsettingsd
> 39 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0.3 0.0 12:04.63 kswapd0
> 5204 postgres 20 0 221736 1168 804 S 0.3 0.0 4:08.56
> postgres
> 5703 root 20 0 4208 128 108 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.29
> minissdpd
> 10607 jdg 20 0 535372 8720 4216 S 0.3 0.2 0:38.58
> xfce4-panel
> 10655 jdg 20 0 181124 3416 2416 S 0.3 0.1 10:50.06
> panel-15-c+
>
> Interestingly, xfsettingsd was also gobbling memory; I don't know
> whether that's part of the same bug, with one causing the other, or
> whether it's an unrelated bug.
>
> Next step: back to xfce4-volumed and remove pulseaudio.
>
> Julian
>
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