Yo!
After running Webkit-based web browser (Vimb) I notice that I have less
and less free memory over time (actually after few hours) even if I kill
both vimb and Webkit* processes. Finally when 3500M and more memory is
allocated I have to endure performance degradation because SWAP is
becoming used.
How the hell do I release all that unused allocated garbage without
rebooting my laptop?
$ top -o size
load averages: 0.03, 0.21, 0.21
mazocomp.lan 04:55:49
70 processes: 1 running, 67 idle, 2 on processor
up 3 days, 0:43
CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% sys, 0.0% spin, 0.2% intr, 99.0%
idle
CPU1 states: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.2% sys, 0.0% spin, 0.0% intr, 99.6%
idle
CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% sys, 0.0% spin, 0.0% intr, 100%
idle
CPU3 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% sys, 0.0% spin, 0.0% intr, 100%
idle
Memory: Real: 69M/3587M act/tot Free: 284M Cache: 383M Swap: 119M/8397M
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND
65413 _postgre 2 0 144M 1868K idle poll 0:07 0.00% postgres
62427 _postgre 2 0 144M 1708K idle poll 0:05 0.00% postgres
72151 _postgre 2 0 144M 1232K idle poll 0:05 0.00% postgres
90499 _postgre 2 0 144M 1180K sleep/0 poll 0:07 0.00% postgres
22310 _postgre 2 0 144M 1080K sleep/0 poll 0:07 0.00% postgres
13490 _postgre 2 0 144M 1028K idle select 0:06 0.00% postgres
58772 mazocomp 2 0 33M 24M sleep/0 poll 73:29 0.00% Xorg
22832 _tor 2 0 32M 26M run/1 - 5:09 0.00% tor
84247 mazocomp 10 0 16M 5492K onproc/1 nanosle 54:15 0.29% toxic
84431 mazocomp 2 0 10M 9168K sleep/1 select 0:05 0.00% xterm
94598 mazocomp 2 0 6412K 8940K idle select 0:00 0.00% xterm
50489 _postgre 2 0 5816K 1344K idle poll 0:10 0.00% postgres
96294 mazocomp 2 0 5640K 5372K sleep/0 poll 1:13 0.00% irssi
96621 mazocomp 2 0 2872K 3476K sleep/0 kqread 2:24 0.00% tmux
43556 mazocomp 2 0 2344K 644K idle netio 0:00 0.00% Xorg
79398 mazocomp 2 0 2296K 2776K idle poll 0:22 0.00% cwm
65673 mazocomp 28 0 2012K 4008K onproc/0 - 0:00 0.00% top
11524 _smtpd 2 0 1688K 880K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd
49299 _smtpd 2 0 1676K 844K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd
64309 _smtpd 2 0 1624K 848K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd
95491 _smtpq 2 0 1560K 844K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd
21445 root 2 0 1548K 848K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd
70699 mazocomp 2 0 1436K 1636K sleep/0 kqread 0:00 0.00% tmux
57744 mazocomp 10 0 1388K 2844K idle wait 0:00 0.00% man
18744 _smtpd 2 0 1292K 844K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd
23808 root 2 0 1292K 808K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% vmd
35038 _smtpd 2 0 1280K 848K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd
53511 _ntp 2 -20 1224K 1208K sleep/1 poll 0:26 0.00% ntpd
45313 _vmd 2 0 1148K 844K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% vmd
75958 _vmd 2 0 1144K 844K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% vmd
11047 root 2 0 1144K 836K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% vmd
25340 _syslogd 2 0 1132K 1040K sleep/1 kqread 0:01 0.00% syslogd
66191 root 2 0 1060K 1072K sleep/0 select 0:10 0.00% tincd
17686 root 2 0 996K 716K idle select 0:05 0.00% sshd
68445 mazocomp 3 0 988K 2596K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% more
39325 mazocomp 2 0 884K 860K idle poll 0:03 0.00% nc
39586 mazocomp 18 0 880K 832K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
65268 mazocomp 2 0 860K 868K idle poll 0:03 0.00% nc
65823 root 2 -20 828K 1128K idle poll 0:05 0.00% ntpd
79705 _dhcp 2 0 764K 8K idle poll 0:07 0.00% dhclient
73782 mazocomp 18 0 760K 448K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
87354 mazocomp 18 0 756K 912K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
89664 mazocomp 18 0 756K 432K idle pause 0:00 0.00% sh
75186 mazocomp 18 0 752K 900K sleep/1 pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
54422 mazocomp 18 0 748K 428K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
18541 mazocomp 18 0 744K 448K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
21475 mazocomp 18 0 744K 444K idle pause 0:00 0.00% sh
9454 mazocomp 18 0 744K 444K idle pause 0:00 0.00% ksh
