neil-a1000 Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 I have Mandriva 2006 installed and working well. However, when I run Gnome the swap space is used and the system performs well, but und KDE the swap space is not used - AT ALL. If I run superkaramba monitoring I can see the utilisation of resources and the system will slow down when I open lots of different apps yet the swap is still not touched. Am I doing something wrong? Have I missed a setting? Thanks in advance. Neil. [moved from Tips & Tricks by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 When you go into swap, you will really see the system slow down. How much ram do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 If you're not using swap, that's good. I found that when I use gnome, my system also uses swap, and after 30 minutes, it's used all of it and killed my system. It becomes unresponsive. I logged a bug for it, but nobody fixed it. Go figure, what's the point it raising a bug, when they don't bother with it. It has been open for months now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 (edited) On my Mandriva 2008.0 KDE 3.5.8 I also noticed that system doesn't ever use SWAP, or maybe something is wrong with the monitoring? [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1011 996 15 0 31 564 -/+ buffers/cache: 400 611 Swap: 0 0 0 I'm also curious why every SuperKaramba theme I used never showed any SWAP usage. And what happened to 13 MB of my RAM (I have 1024 MB and Mandriva sees only 1011...)? Edited January 12, 2008 by zibi1981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 I use Mandriva 2005 with KDE and 1GB of RAM. The only time I have seen swap usage is when I build my own firefox from source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Just another proof that Gnome sucks :P Seriosly, an excessive use of swap signals that one of the applications has a memory leak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Swap: 0 0 0 That first 0 shows that you have no swap available to use. What does cat /etc/fstab show you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) I managed to resolve my problem with a little help :) The key to this solution was the discovery that my SWAP partition haven't been mounted automatically with other partitions, and so Mandriva didn't see it (hence free -m command was showing Swap: 0 0 0, and my SuperKaramba monitor 0 of 0 MB). After I mounted SWAP manually in the MCC, finally system started to show the correct information [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1011 630 381 0 32 215 -/+ buffers/cache: 381 629 Swap: 1019 0 1019 [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 1044184 224 -1 That was until reboot. The problem was in my /etc/fstab, where I had following entry regarding SWAP LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0 but SWAP don't have a label on my system... Problem was solved when I changed this entry to /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Edited January 13, 2008 by zibi1981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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