On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: > On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: > >> Fred, > >> > >> Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet > >> consumes the following: > >> > >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > >> 4133 me 15 0 29568 3748 2944 S 0.0 0.2 190:51.33 clock-applet > >> > >> My uptime at the moment is coming on 68 days. Over time the %CPU field > >> may flicker up to 0.3 or even 0.7, but the RES column and others are > >> steady at the numbers you see. I should add that all Preferences which > >> we'd expect to consume more resources (e.g., display seconds, 12-hour > >> time) are on. > >> > >> Do you use evolution? > > > > no, I have never found it to my liking. > > > >> > >> KDE, Gnome, or other WM? > > > > gnome. > > I don't know what to tell you then because, like you, I use gnome but > not evolution. So our systems-- what of them which are directly related > to clock-applet-- are much the same, yet you have a memory problem with > clock-applet which I don't. here's what top reports today (clock-applet has not been restarted since the event mentioned in my original posting): PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11159 fredex 16 0 263m 149m 10m S 0.3 3.8 1:36.87 clock-applet in which I note it is now up to "149m". > > Here are some items to compare: > > # rpm -q gnome-panel > gnome-panel-2.16.1-7.el5 > # ll /usr/libexec/clock-applet > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88048 May 24 2008 /usr/libexec/clock-applet > # md5sum /usr/libexec/clock-applet > 9d21ca21a0e99ad26aa10e1cd5b42024 /usr/libexec/clock-applet > # rpm -q gnome-panel gnome-panel-2.16.1-7.el5 # ll /usr/libexec/clock-applet -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88048 May 24 2008 /usr/libexec/clock-applet # md5sum /usr/libexec/clock-applet 2bc9a73a5251d1b4747ec133839412b7 /usr/libexec/clock-applet it's the same version and size as yours, but the md5sum differs. have you perhaps disabled prelink? (I don't call that I have ever done so) It's not obvious to me what other (legitimate) event would account for the difference in checksum. If I run: rpm -V -v gnome-panel it shows no differences at all, so I don't think the clock-applet has been damaged or hacked. (but I wonder what it shows on your system, since yours has a different md5sum.) ........ /usr/libexec/clock-applet > > > > >> On 01/04/2013 05:11 PM fred smith wrote: > >>> I've discovered recently that something on my Centos 5.8 box (up to date) > >>> is hogging a ton of RAM. > >>> > >>> so a little while ago I sat and watched top for a while. it showed > >>> (sorry, I didn't take screen shots or write this down, so the numbers > >>> are a bit rough) that out of 8 gigs of swap, around 2 1/2 was in use, > >>> and all the RAM (except for the little the kernel keeps for itself) > >>> was in use (it's got 4 gigs). > >>> > >>> this might not sound bad, but there's hardly ever anything big running > >>> on this box, it's just my home desktop machine used mostly for web > >>> browsing/music/email and similar. > >>> > >>> so, watching top run for a while I could eventually make out that > >>> something had "1.6g" flashing in the "RES" column. slowing the refresh > >>> a little I saw that it was "clock applet". so I killed the clock applet > >>> and restarted it, then clock applet showed "11m" in the "RES" column, > >>> and the unused RAM was suddenly like a gig and 3/4, or so, and the > >>> swap used slowly started dropping while the free ram began being used up, > >>> as it normally should. > >>> > >>> as I continue to watch it run (10-15 mins later) I can see that clock > >>> applet is now showing 14m in the RES column, so it's still growing. > >>> > >>> Is anyone else seeing the clock applet hogging (tons of tiny leaks, I > >>> assume) RAM needlessly? > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS mailing list > >> CentOS at centos.org > >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------