I can confirm this behaviour on both my laptop and my work PC. My PC has 2GB RAM and I have configured a 4GB swap partition. With KDE 4.2, compositing turned off and only a firefox tab htop says 2.7GB of swap are used. That cannot be normal. My RAM is only at 450MB (excluding cached memory).
This is the output of free: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2051528 1763172 288356 0 12576 1290156 -/+ buffers/cache: 460440 1591088 Swap: 4257184 2774168 1483016 Swap usage is increasing only during normal use (I left the computer on over the weekend and it stayed constant), but once at a value it never decreases. Once the swap partition is full I experience an extremely high hard disk activity, causing the system to become unresponsive. ** Attachment added: "htop-snapshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26362208/htop-snapshot.png -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs