sleeping processes and swap

[Darrin Chandler]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:18:08PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> I don't know.... top looks pretty lean and I don't know what I'm looking  
> at in the in vmstat (virtualmemory statistics?). I suppose I could stop  
> spamd but that is only 7.4%memory. To my untrained eye things are as lean  
> as can be. What say you?
> 
> mike1 at 3[~]$ top;vmstat
> top - 17:57:17 up 19:10,  2 users,  load average: 2.15, 2.05, 1.45
> Tasks:  89 total,   4 running,  85 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 66.8% us, 16.8% sy,  2.5% ni,  3.5% id,  0.0% wa,  9.4% hi,  1.0%  
> si
> Mem:    385264k total,   374040k used,    11224k free,    49748k buffers

You *really* have your memory maxed out? "385264k total" isn't horrible
or unexpected, but it's hard to believe it's maxed out.

> Swap:  1025000k total,    18564k used,  1006436k free,   116624k cached
> 
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   8502 bmike1    15   0  140m  74m  14m R 41.0 19.7  13:27.54 opera

Over 41% cpu and 20% memory to run opera. Were you doing something
special in opera then, or is it always like that?

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