Bug 236166 - Intensive usage of swap space after a few days continuously uptime
Summary: Intensive usage of swap space after a few days continuously uptime
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Unspecified
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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: 230825 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-05-03 15:05 UTC by Andreas Pietzowski
Modified: 2020-09-28 23:05 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Pietzowski 2010-05-03 15:05:04 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

First I thought it was my incremental update with old ubuntu versions and all those many of updates to KDE 4.4.2 from backports etc.

Now I cleanly installed Kubuntu 10.04 and recognize the same behavior:

When I boot my machine and log into KDE everything is fine but when I stay logged in for about two or three days my swap space is eaten up from some KDE based applications. When I run "top" from the commandline I get the following:

VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  SWAP COMMAND              

1295m  79m  16m S   10  1.3   7:08.16 1.2g amarok                                                     
1043m 231m  37m S    8  3.9  12:13.76 811m kdevelop.bin                                               
 761m  39m  14m S    3  0.7  92:34.17 721m kwin                                                       
 471m 276m 2904 S    2  4.6 109:22.15 194m Xorg                                                       
 890m  82m  29m S    1  1.4   0:04.61 807m plasma-desktop                                             
 314m  19m 8968 S    1  0.3   0:11.52 295m yakuake                                                    

What could be the reason for this behavior? Actually I would post this as a bug because I have enough RAM for everything I run but my system really slows down. When I logout and log in again everything is snappy again within the new KDE session.
Comment 1 Andreas Pietzowski 2010-05-03 15:16:23 UTC 
Sorry, I wanted to say "Actually I would NOT post this as a bug
because I have enough RAM ..."
Comment 2 Andreas Pietzowski 2010-06-14 18:40:09 UTC 
This is still the case with KDE 4.4.4. Isn't there someone out there who has the same issue? Does everybody shut down KDE in the evening and rebooting in the morning? This issue only appears after a few days of continuously running.

Is there a way how I can profile that SWAP space?
Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2012-07-09 23:50:01 UTC 
*** Bug 230825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-09 00:54:55 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-18 03:25:24 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-09-28 23:05:13 UTC 
No response; assuming it was fixed since then.