KDE 4.2 eats all my memory and swap

[stevouch]

Hi,

It is quite strange : After a few minutes KDE 4.2 eats all my memory (top command) and then all my swap which causes a system degradation.

Is there anyone who suffers from same issue??

Another thing which is strange is the discrepancy between memory usage top shows and the one htop shows .


for ex : top shows 1500 M swap 0 htop shows 500M swap 0 after one hour
top shows :
Mem: 4051108k total, 4051108k used,
Swap: 2048248k total, 2048248k used

and htop still shows that Memory is not fully but swap is fully used..

Do not have this issue with Gnome+compiz
Regards
vouchy

[bd54338rre]

strange,

@localhost Documents]$ top

top - 15:07:20 up 5 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.42, 0.58, 0.29
Tasks: 134 total,   2 running, 132 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.7%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 97.0%id,  0.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2063444k total,   590888k used,  1472556k free,    17752k buffers
Swap:  4128760k total,        0k used,  4128760k free,   295992k cached

[stevouch]

I am on x86_64.
how did you get the 2.6.28 kernel?? I would like to yum install this new kernel..
Regards
vouchy

[stevouch]

This issue here seems to be quite similar http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=492288 on a 64 arch...
Any Ideas..??

Rgs
vouchy

[bd54338rre]

Originally Posted by stevouch

I am on x86_64.
how did you get the 2.6.28 kernel?? I would like to yum install this new kernel..
Regards
vouchy

you can find kernel 2.6.28.1 on:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/

[William Haller]

KDE 4.2 from kde-redhat-testing here (and the stock kernel) only exhausts RAM via konqueror, but that takes about a day. It is a google gadget on iGoogle that is killing it (not freeing RAM as it continually refreshes). Are you using any Google gadgets on the desktop that could have similar issues? Restarting Konqueror once a day fixes my problem.