KDE memory abnormalities

[Warren Luebkeman]

The distribution is Debian Sarge, with a backported verison of KDE version 
3.5.0, running kernel 2.6.17.11.  All four servers are using identical 
packages.  

Here is an example of the resource difference between both servers for the 
kicker process.  This is the output of ps aux .

(bad server)
shawnbe  12297  0.0  3.8 737008 160824 ?     S    Nov03   0:01 kicker 
[kdeinit]

(normal server)
michael  26999  0.0  0.3 30024 16420 ?       S    Nov03   0:02 kicker 
[kdeinit]

As you can see, ps aux is showing that the kicker on the normal server is 
using about 1/10 the memory as the bad server.  This is true of all kde 
processes.  I realize that ps aux isn't really telling us how much memory the 
process is using, but either way there really is no question that the bad 
server is using substantially more resources.  Are there any tools I can use 
to get more information on what is going on?

On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:57 pm, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 11/5/06, Warren Luebkeman <warren at resara.com> wrote:
> > I am having a problem with KDE processes using about three times as much
> > memory as normal.
>
>   Distribution?  Version?  KDE version?  Kernel version?
>
>   Are you sure they're actually using more memory?  Sometimes threads
> and shared memory and other magic can make the output of "ps" and the
> like counter-intuitive.
>
> -- Ben
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