Comment 69 for bug 131094

I can confirm that this is unrelated to trackerd at all (I had it uninstalled as soon as I was constantly running into it), and while observing memory consumption lately I can see that although I have 1GB or RAM, system monitor shows that only around 600-700MB of it are being used, and used swap is raising with time. Now I observe that it is 700MB of memory and 597MB swap occupied somehow, even while update-manager downloads packages my letters come out now with a very noticeable delay. The weirdest thing is that system monitor shows only one big consumer, firefox-bin (which it shows as 254MB only), and others are no bigger than 50MB. Top on the other hand shows unrealistically huge numbers for most applications (Xorg: 247m VIRT 184m SWAP, synaptic: 188m VIRT, 150m SWAP, firefox-bin: 915m VIRT, 661m SWAP, etc). I don't understand what's going on, but as far as I've seen before, as soon as synaptic starts installing updates it's just a complete showstopper for me. Disk thrashing and memory usage seem to suggest that my system is actually swapping BADLY (as if I don't touch my PC while it's updating and then come back all applications slowly get unswapped, even after disk activity is gone).

Could it be a memory leak somewhere? Or what is it, what can it be? It's disk activity related (copying big files, installing packages, other activities do trigger slowdowns, even on -rt kernel), but in my case it also seems to be memory related, at least the more time passes, the more it starts looking like swapping issue.

My current uptime is 4 days 13:39, that's why it's gone too bad.

Also I'm using linux-rt on amd64, though I'm thinking to move back to linux-general after the next reboot.

Anyone else noticed something strange with memory consumption?

P.S. When I first moved from WinXP to Feisty I was so laughing at WinXP as Feisty took just above only quarter of my memory. Why is it suddenly so big now?