Questions tagged [memory-usage]
Questions related to memory usage related to RAM, swap; issues expansion, in Ubuntu.
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Xorg using all my memory RAM?
I am having some memory problems that I don't know how to explain, and I don't have the knowledge to investigate it properly. Hope someone can guide me through it.
Since yesterday my notebook (Ubuntu ...
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gnome-keyring-daemon memory problem
gnome-keyring-daemon uses enormous quantities of memory when used with google chrome (seen on 14.0,4, 16.04 and 17.x, grows up to 2 Gb), hogging down whole system.
It seems that the problem is ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 with no swap freezes when running out of memory
I have an up-to-date 16.04 64bit system with 24GB of memory, configured without swap. Sometimes due to the nature of my work (multiple VirtualBox VMs running, Eclipse running, Firefox and Chrome ...
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How do I fix high memory usage on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS?
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS is using a lot of memory, (10.1GB out of 12GB of RAM). The RAM fills up over time and reaches dangerously high levels of usage, even when I am using only 2 applications.
I've tried ...
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Gnome shell takes a lot of memory
Is it normal that after fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS gnome shell takes 255 MB of RAM?
If not, What should i do to solve that problem?
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GNOME Software Memory Leak
GNOME Software is memory hog
GNOME 3.38.1
GNOME Software 3.38.0
Ubuntu 20.10
Linux Kernel 5.8.0-40-generic
How can I solve this?
Thanks!
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zswap can never find required modules on boot
I've had no trouble with Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04, but I have recently span up a 20.04 VM and I cannot get it to set the correct Zswap parameters at boot. It would appear that it cannot find the required ...
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Xorg uses too much memory in Kubuntu 20.04
After a few minutes of working with Blender 2.82 I noticed high memory usage (i.e almost 4GBs which is 1/4 of my RAM) from Xorg process in my system.After closing the blender though, the situation ...
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How can a blacklist of programs be defined for halting if RAM memory usage goes beyond a certain point?
My computers have been freezing too much because of a lack of RAM. I need this to happen less. I am aware that the system in this high-RAM usage state is technically still solving the problem via SSD ...
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Nautilus using lots of memory
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.1 and yesterday and today I've noticed that Nautilus is using a lot of memory (see picture). Has anyone else been noticing this kind of memory usage or should I report a bug ...
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Ubuntu Huge Memory Use
I'm having some issue with Ubuntu. I am learning web developing and decided to use Ubuntu as my OS (on a different drive I have W10). I tried both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.04 (although I just ...
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High usage of ram in Ubuntu 16.04
I have a problem since I upgraded from 15.10 to 16.04 some days ago: My ram is almost completely full!
I have 8 GB of ram on my system, currently 6,9GB are used (with just firefox open).
I've ran a ...
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14.04 - What's with systemd-udevd? Heavy CPU and RAM usage when system idle w/o any application running
I have left my laptop on overnight for charging two video recording devices via USB. Next day I woke up, I found that there was heavy CPU, ram, and swap usage
(screencap for reference).
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Is it possible to suspend applications?
The main idea is to add a "suspend" button to the title(behind the "quit" cross button) of the application window that will copy the memory taken by application to swap/local storage with pid ...
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unity-music-daemon uses large amount of memory
When I boot my Ubuntu 13.04 up, I noticed that my fans goes crazy and when I had a glanced at System Monitor, I saw that a process called unity-music-daemon is using a large amount of memory and CPU. ...
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What can I do to make Unity more memory-efficient?
I realy love Unity, but the most of the time I have to use gnome-shell because I only have 1.5 GB of RAM and when I work I have to use all these apps: fogger, firefox, compiz efects, empathy, gwibber ...
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Unexpectedly high memory usage in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
I have noticed for a while now that my system seems to be using up my memory much more quickly than I would expect. When it gets like this, I do notice it slowing down a bit at time, and my fan starts ...
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Skype taking too much virtual memory
When starting skype under Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS it starts several processes. Two of them occupy 41.2GB and 32.6GB of virtual memory. Is that really needed? Are there files that can be deleted freeing ...
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Ubuntu 20.04, Memory cache exhausts immediately upon booting
I'm not a supernerd, but I know some stuff, and I'm pretty sure my system is not supposed to work like this.
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 20.04 from the bones up on my home-built desktop because I ...
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BIOS detects RAM but Linux is not using all of it
I have 2x 4gb RAM modules installed in slot 1 & 2 on my mobo, with the server running Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. It looks like BIOS is seeing both modules:
sudo dmidecode --type 17
Handle 0x0011, DMI ...
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Ubuntu running out of RAM and crashing and freezing because of it
i have 32GB of RAM in my computer which should be more than enough as a web developer. i think adding more will only delay the out-of-ram issues.
i am experiencing issues on Ubuntu where chrome is ...
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Memory over-consumption: gnome-shell? google-chrome? slack?
I am having issues on a ubuntu 19.04 computer: regular freezes, ...
Monitoring screenshots (htop)
During a memory overload...
(Unfortunately I didn't think of hiding userland threads on the 1st, ...
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Any swap usage causes system wide freeze, 18.04
My question is exactly the same as Any swap usage causes system wide freeze, only in 18.04. But nobody answered that one ...
When I play particularly graphic intensive games, some (variable) short ...
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Is there a way to get ubuntu to behave more sanely when short of memory
(sorry I couldn't think of a good way to phrase this question)
If I ran windows and opened 1000 tabs in opera what I would get is opera will report that it's "out of memory" or opera might stop ...
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Steam game itself uses 800 MB of memory, but total when running is 4GB RAM + 2GB swap?
System uses 2GB of memory on average, this steam game called Robocraft uses around 800MB of memory when initializing, but the total under Resources is 4GB RAM (max) and 2GB swap?!
Here are some ...
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Cached Memory full in minutes
We are running Ubuntu version on AWS EC2 instance for one of our production server. Issues is Memory is getting utilized fully and our website which is hosted in this server is freezing. When i ...
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How to prevent Ubuntu from becoming unresponsive when not having enough memory?
When I open an application for which there is not enough memory, Ubuntu becomes unresponsive. The problem seems to arise from the way Ubuntu handles swap (as kswapd hogs CPU usage in such a situation)....
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Why does indicator-sound-service use so much memory?
What can it possibly be doing to require that much memory?
Thanks.
-Erik
charm /etc/xdg/xfce4 282# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=15.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=vivid
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How to allow a process to use more memory
I am trying to run a game on Steam at a decent speed. I exceed the system requirements for this game, and the game is already set to minimum graphics, but it is still running slow.
I have been using ...
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Ensuring fail-safety of an Apache server
I have a few Wordpress websites running on Apache 2.4.7 / Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. It is a virtual machine running on Microsoft Azure. The websites are using a MySQL server also running on the same machine....
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"-/+ buffers/cache memory" is zero
i have an OpenVZ VPS with ubuntu server 14.04.2 and i can access to a SolusVM control panel. Recently, "memory usage" is always 0 KB, and only "vswap usage" shows real swap usage.
if i run free -k i ...
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TuxOnIce hibernate error "seeking to free XXXXMB of memory" on Ubuntu 14.04
My desktop PC did not support for hibernate on Ubuntu 14.04. Therefore, I installed TuxOnIce (kernale 3.13.0-36-generic-tuxonice) to enable hibernate feature. Now, the hibernate feature works fine on ...
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How to find out which programs are taking up alot of memory?
I've been getting messages that I have exceeded my quota limits. I am new to Linux and am not sure what to do. With windows, I could easily just go to Control panel, add/remove programs, and uninstall ...
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Weird java memory allocation
My task manager shows that for my java process memory allocated is 16777216.0 TB (yep, TB).
It happens when programming swing application with eclipse 3.8.
Oh, and my distro is lubuntu 14.04. Nothing ...
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Why is this bus error occurring when reading through a shared memory object?
Version: Ubuntu 22.04.3
GCC: 11.4.0 (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04)
Hi,
I'm trying to create a program with a very large shared memory object. This is being done on an AWS EC2 instance with 130GB of ...
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"free -g" and top reporting wildly different memory usage on MySQL server
I am aware of buffers, cache, swap, etc. but can anyone explain this one to me?
First, Here's a TOP output sorted by memory usage. Note that MySQL is using 39.4% of the RAM in the system. Every other ...
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How to clean up Ubuntu 22.04 active services that are not needed when used as a virtual machine and only for light predominantly non-GUI usage?
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 in a relatively light fashion. My use case is in a virtual machine that runs all of the time, but very occasionally I need to use the graphical user interface. I did this on ...
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RAM and Swap memory not freed after python calculation?
I have Ubuntu 21.04 and I started to have a particular issue some time ago. I have python programs I run regularly, sometimes re-running the same thing without any differences. But since some time, my ...
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memory "used" and indicated in "ps" doesn't add up
I cannot track of memory used in my system. "System monitor" graphical tool tells that I use 18GB of memory.
Then "top" tell me 16.4GB
htop - 6.94 GB
The command:
ps aux | awk '{...
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Ubuntu 20.04 has recently started to use swap very aggressively
I use Ubuntu 20.04 with 16 GB RAM and a swappiness setting of 10. This has worked well in the past, but sometime during the last month I feel there has been a huge shift in the way memory is handled. ...
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Mailspring ridicoulus high memory usage
Mailspring is advertised as a lightweight client but it is consuming 1G+ of RAM, which compared to thunderbird is a lot, is there any way to fix this?
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Swap partition configured, but showing 0 usage despite running out of memory
I have an Ubuntu 20.04.2 machine that I configured to boot from raidz2. During the original setup, I chose not to use swap. At the time, I didn’t have a spare drive and I had heard that there could be ...
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Getting aggregate memory usage of a Linux process?
How is it possible to aggregate memory usage of a Linux process and all its children in human readable format?
I tried this link and even using cat /proc/$pid/status but the latter had 18GB of ...
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Why is systemctl showing memory current as [Not Set]?
I have been trying to limit the memory usage of firefox, by following this tutorial: https://dev.to/msugakov/taking-firefox-memory-usage-under-control-on-linux-4b02
In there, we limit the memory usage ...
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18.04 Swap Size Large than RAM
Something happened after a recent update. I have 5GB RAM installed (one 4GB card, one 1GB) on a Toshiba L750D. After a recent update, it started running super slow. I noticed it is only seeing 708....
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/sbin/zsysd using extreme amount of CPU+memory
I'm running Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy with full-disk encryption, on a Thinkpad T490. I did a fully clean install (moving from Debian) of Ubuntu about a month ago.
After boot /sbin/zsysd starts using large ...
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Can I make Ubuntu leave enough memory to be able to keep running Gnome?
I've had it happen a few times -- e.g. while running a python program that parses a large file in memory, or using Firefox to share a screen while a lot of docker containers were running -- that Gnome ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 taking way too much ram
Some time ago I noticed a lot of ram(1.8/8GB) being used when my system was idle with only a day of uptime. I had to reinstall my Ubuntu because of some reason and now the ram usage has risen up much ...
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Resource usage log
Does Ubuntu register the resources it is using into a log? I need to see the load and RAM usage of a server at a specific time (approximately at 5 AM).
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Shrinking GPU memory objects that no are no longer needed
After some searching , I didn't find any standard way to release GPU memory that is allocated to Tensorflow.So I want to know is there a way to manually shrink VRAM objects that are no longer needed ...
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