F25 - outragous memory consumption

[Fulko Hew]

Running F25 I'm seeing (IMHO) some outrageous memory consumption
Here's what top showed (just before the system hung up completely).

ksmserver taking 13Gig of memory !
pulseaudio taking almost 4Gig !

Wow.
No wonder my system hung.

Comments anyone?

TIA
Fulko

1492 fhew      20   0 13.418g 4.306g   3584 R  99.3 55.9  88:06.07
ksmserver
32357 fhew      20   0 6801384 1.535g 108592 S  17.6 19.9   4607:57
firefox
 1510 fhew      20   0 3678396 179092  63152 S   1.3  2.2 755:19.27
kwin_x11
 1073 root      20   0  656128 129312 108148 S   0.7  1.6 954:53.74
Xorg
 3338 fhew      20   0  365836   5148   3212 S   0.7  0.1 343:43.99
gkrellm
 1612 fhew       9 -11 3907076  19740  18436 S   0.3  0.2 274:10.75
pulseaudio
    1 root      20   0  215116   1016      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:24.45
systemd

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:38:09 -0400
Fulko Hew wrote:
> 1492 fhew      20   0 13.418g 4.306g   3584 R  99.3 55.9  88:06.07
> ksmserver

The whole ksm concept is lame, and the implementation is worse.
Unless you are running thousands of identical virtual machines
on your system, you can safely turn off ksm. (I uninstalled
it just to make absolutely sure it wouldn't pop back up which
too many things do under systemd).