Very interesting!

Julian, may I also ask you to attach the output of #cat /proc/<pid of
xfce4-volumed>/maps and #cat /proc/<pid of xfsettings>/maps ? It will tell
the whole list of libraries that are opened by each app.


2014-05-06 10:56 GMT+01:00 Julian Gilbey <email address hidden>:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> I've just come back in, opened my computer and waited and waited and
> waited for it to respond ;-)
> With xfce4-volumed-pulse, things are as bad as before: with top sorted by
> %MEM:
>
> top - 10:36:36 up 8 days, 34 min,  5 users,  load average: 16.32, 19.37,
> 15.93
> Tasks: 249 total,   1 running, 248 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> %Cpu(s):  5.7 us,  1.4 sy,  0.0 ni, 24.5 id, 68.4 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
>  0.0 st
> KiB Mem:   3964008 total,  3874228 used,    89780 free,     3040 buffers
> KiB Swap:  9760764 total,  8485812 used,  1274952 free.   150392 cached Mem
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
> 10701 jdg       20   0 8702408 1.234g   1164 D   0.0 32.7  73:15.19
> xfce4-volu+
> 10608 jdg       20   0 2560556 1.144g  12604 S   0.3 30.3  32:22.79
> xfsettingsd
> 11137 jdg       20   0 1454064 345380   9332 D   0.3  8.7  21:02.01
> iceweasel
>
>
> Then ps aux shows:
>
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> jdg      10701  1.0 32.3 8701956 1281372 ?     Dsl  May01  73:13
> xfce4-volumed-pulse
> jdg      24918  0.0  0.0 377880   792 ?        S<l  Apr30   0:00
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>
> But top sorted by %CPU shows very little of interest:
>
> top - 10:36:48 up 8 days, 34 min,  5 users,  load average: 14.91, 18.91,
> 15.83
> Tasks: 248 total,   1 running, 247 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> %Cpu(s):  2.9 us,  1.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 41.5 id, 54.6 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
>  0.0 st
> KiB Mem:   3964008 total,  3836104 used,   127904 free,     1748 buffers
> KiB Swap:  9760764 total,  8489832 used,  1270932 free.   139944 cached Mem
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
> 30731 root      20   0   76676   1880    840 S   6.6  0.0 399:25.52
> cups-brows+
> 10401 root      20   0  278536  19896   5396 S   3.7  0.5 372:56.88 Xorg
> 18022 root      20   0   85228   3072    904 S   3.0  0.1  91:17.50 cupsd
> 11059 jdg       20   0  582780   9336   4248 S   1.3  0.2   0:59.45
> xfce4-term+
> 10608 jdg       20   0 2560556 1.142g  12604 D   0.7 30.2  32:22.83
> xfsettingsd
>    39 root      20   0       0      0      0 D   0.3  0.0  12:04.63 kswapd0
>  5204 postgres  20   0  221736   1168    804 S   0.3  0.0   4:08.56
> postgres
>  5703 root      20   0    4208    128    108 S   0.3  0.0   0:00.29
> minissdpd
> 10607 jdg       20   0  535372   8720   4216 S   0.3  0.2   0:38.58
> xfce4-panel
> 10655 jdg       20   0  181124   3416   2416 S   0.3  0.1  10:50.06
> panel-15-c+
>
> Interestingly, xfsettingsd was also gobbling memory; I don't know
> whether that's part of the same bug, with one causing the other, or
> whether it's an unrelated bug.
>
> Next step: back to xfce4-volumed and remove pulseaudio.
>
>    Julian
>
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