Accumulating swap over time

[John Summerfied]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Running FC4 kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp.  I seem to accumulate a large 
> amount of swap over time.  (A few days.  I'm not running any unusual 
> apps.  My memory stastics (xosview) says I have gobs of free memory but 
> after a while, even with a gig or more of free RAM my swap goes up to 
> several hundred megabytes and things slow way down.  The disk swaps 
> madly and then backs off for a while.  It seems to be cyclic in nature 
> but the swap never goes away until a reboot.  At all times I have in 
> excess of a gig of free RAM.  The only apps I'm running are Firefox, 
> Thunderbird, openoffice 2.0, perhaps a music player on this machine 
> under KDE 3.5.0.

AFAIK Mozilla (and probably derivitives) leak memory fairly badly. I've 
reported it to mozilla.org (as have others), but not knowing how not to 
have the problem I can't describe to them how to have the problem, and 
they didn't seem very interested.

Here are my memory hogs:

13973 summer    15   0  407m 201m  15m S  1.7 41.3 327:17.73 mozilla-bin
  6200 root      15   0  240m  35m 2292 S  4.0  7.3 203:13.70 X
  5959 summer    15   0  189m  34m  10m S  0.0  7.1   5:17.81 
thunderbird-bin
  7491 summer    15   0  210m  34m  18m S  0.0  7.0  20:37.67 soffice.bin


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