Too much memory being consumed! Also is it time to fsck my HD?

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Bushido Hacks 0 Newbie Poster

15 Years Ago

My computer seems bogged down lately. Even with my good computer specifications (see profile), things are running slow.

Even with 2GB memory, 99% is being used up most of the time, and I am only using two or three programs that should not be sucking up all that memory. What should I do?

Secondly, file retrieval has been needlessly slow. Should I defrag my harddrive using fsck? If so, how do I do it? Should I back up all my files first? If I need to use a different drive in order to fsck my harddrive, how do I do that?

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15 Years Ago

Well. Go into a terminal and post the output of:

top -n 1 -b

(Use code tags for the output, please)

You might have a runaway process that's using 99% of your memory.

John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker

15 Years Ago

npviewer.bin is part of the Adobe Flash plugin for Linux, and there's a known bug which causes the Linux version to use up oodles of CPU even when idling. Adobe hasn't bothered to fix it, so basically the only workaround, short from uninstalling it, is to kill the npviewer.bin process when you notice it hogging a lot of CPU cycles. From the command line this can be accomplished by running kill [B][I]pid[/I][/B] , replacing 'pid' with the process ID of npviewer.bin. You can use 'top' to find the process ID. There's probably some GUI utility which can accomplish this too, but I don't have the energy to find it. Like always, Google is your friend.

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Bushido Hacks 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 1 · 2008-05-30T04:36:38+00:00

Well. Go into a terminal and post the output of:
top -n 1 -b
(Use code tags for the output, please)
You might have a runaway process that's using 99% of your memory.

top - 17:33:47 up 33 days,  3:01,  1 user,  load average: 2.73, 1.30, 0.80
Tasks: 169 total,   1 running, 168 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.8%us,  1.8%sy,  0.1%ni, 88.1%id,  0.6%wa,  0.9%hi,  4.6%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2062848k total,  2048060k used,    14788k free,     8132k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,  1180576k used,   851032k free,   144876k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
18734 bushidoh  20   0  264m 103m  12m S   23  5.1  16:34.31 npviewer.bin       
 3240 root      20   0  929m 514m  11m S    6 25.6   1036:34 Xorg               
20373 root      20   0 14708 1016  712 R    4  0.0   0:00.02 top                
  272 root      15  -5     0    0    0 D    2  0.0   3:42.38 kswapd0            
 3020 root      39  19  413m 192m 4404 D    2  9.5  78:53.37 yum-updatesd       
18521 bushidoh  20   0 1147m 424m  22m S    2 21.1  36:38.42 firefox-bin        
    1 root      20   0 10328  564  536 S    0  0.0   0:12.73 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:03.01 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   1:15.32 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.71 watchdog/0         
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.88 migration/1        
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:12.66 ksoftirqd/1        
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.78 watchdog/1         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:20.27 events/0           
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:11.50 events/1           
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 khelper            
   60 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:05.94 kblockd/0          
   61 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:05.90 kblockd/1          
   64 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid             
   65 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_notify       
  202 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/0           
  203 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/1           
  205 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd      
  211 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd              
  214 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod            
  325 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0              
  326 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1              
  470 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused          
  506 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   1:37.43 ata/0              
  507 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   1:42.14 ata/1              
  508 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux            
  515 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0          
  516 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1          
  517 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_2          
  518 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_3          
  522 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   6:29.50 scsi_eh_4          
  523 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_5          
  536 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksnapd             
  547 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   6:36.64 kjournald          
  575 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.09 kauditd            
  616 root      16  -4 14696  476  400 S    0  0.0   0:00.78 udevd              
 1089 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_6          
 1094 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:09.89 usb-storage        
 1096 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_7          
 1097 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   2:36.68 usb-storage        
 1579 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kmpathd/0          
 1580 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kmpathd/1          
 1604 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kjournald          
 1720 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   3:04.06 kondemand/0        
 1721 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kondemand/1        
 1980 root      20   0  6668  520  408 S    0  0.0   0:00.13 dhclient           
 2055 root      17  -3 19240  564  476 S    0  0.0   0:01.91 auditd             
 2057 root      17  -3 13924  608  448 S    0  0.0   0:00.29 audispd            
 2080 root      20   0  6784  552  484 S    0  0.0   0:02.75 syslogd            
 2083 root      20   0  4676  364  320 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 klogd              
 2095 root      20   0  6464  316  252 S    0  0.0   2:22.07 irqbalance         
 2117 rpc       20   0 19528  496  452 S    0  0.0   0:01.18 rpcbind            
 2146 rpcuser   20   0 11012  524  520 S    0  0.0   0:00.05 rpc.statd          
 2179 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 rpciod/0           
 2180 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 rpciod/1           
 2188 root      20   0 45112  264  236 S    0  0.0   0:00.45 rpc.idmapd         
 2207 dbus      20   0 21532  880  480 S    0  0.0   0:01.97 dbus-daemon        
 2218 root      20   0 14028  696  692 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hcid               
 2224 root      20   0  9492  480  476 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 sdpd               
 2247 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 krfcommd           
 2304 root      20   0 21020  500  476 S    0  0.0   0:18.43 pcscd              
 2418 root      20   0  9388  356  352 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hidd               
 2532 root      20   0 94096  816  660 S    0  0.0   0:44.80 automount          
 2551 root      20   0 60416  700  460 S    0  0.0   0:01.94 hpiod              
 2556 root      20   0  167m 2996 1112 S    0  0.1   0:27.32 python             
 2571 root      20   0 47348  420  416 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 sshd               
 2582 root      20   0  134m 1912 1296 S    0  0.1   0:17.34 cupsd              
 2594 root      20   0 22504  524  520 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 xinetd             
 2608 ntp       20   0 24040  972  844 S    0  0.0   0:03.56 ntpd               
 2639 root      20   0 74576 1024 1020 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 mysqld_safe        
 2699 mysql     20   0  179m 2208  792 S    0  0.1  15:05.72 mysqld             
 2741 root      20   0 67464  776  564 S    0  0.0   0:42.63 sendmail           
 2749 smmsp     20   0 53988  660  528 S    0  0.0   0:00.27 sendmail           
 2806 root      20   0  247m  888  848 S    0  0.0   0:30.58 httpd              
 2817 root      20   0  3900  284  280 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 nasd               
 2828 root      20   0 30100 1292 1120 S    0  0.1   0:00.17 console-kit-dae    
 2902 root      20   0 84216  640  576 S    0  0.0   0:05.85 crond              
 2965 xfs       20   0 22188 2288  624 S    0  0.1   0:12.25 xfs                
 2986 root      20   0 19588  320  296 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 atd                
 3009 root      20   0  8204  552  508 S    0  0.0   0:53.08 dhcdbd             
 3032 avahi     20   0 23224  724  720 S    0  0.0   0:00.13 avahi-daemon       
 3033 avahi     20   0 23104  132  128 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 avahi-daemon       
 3044 nobody    20   0  167m  592  588 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 fyre               
 3055 haldaemo  20   0 24332 1992 1240 S    0  0.1   0:17.13 hald               
 3056 root      20   0 17408  736  732 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 hald-runner        
 3068 haldaemo  20   0 12292  676  644 S    0  0.0   0:11.83 hald-addon-keyb    
 3069 haldaemo  20   0 12292  640  636 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-keyb    
 3070 haldaemo  20   0 12292  640  636 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-keyb    
 3071 haldaemo  20   0 12292  640  636 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-keyb    
 3102 root      20   0 19520  768  764 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-cpuf    
 3103 haldaemo  20   0 12288  624  620 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi    
 3108 root      20   0 12880  580  532 S    0  0.0  20:10.39 hald-addon-hid-    
 3114 root      20   0 19512  812  724 S    0  0.0   1:07.40 hald-addon-stor    
 3116 root      20   0 19512  804  720 S    0  0.0   1:08.68 hald-addon-stor    
 3118 root      20   0 19512  812  724 S    0  0.0   1:06.96 hald-addon-stor    
 3120 root      20   0 19512  812  724 S    0  0.0   1:08.90 hald-addon-stor    
 3125 root      20   0 19512  804  720 S    0  0.0   8:05.90 hald-addon-stor    
 3146 root      20   0 11852  456  296 S    0  0.0   0:00.43 smartd             
 3151 root      20   0  3772  380  376 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 mingetty           
 3152 root      20   0  3772  380  376 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 mingetty           
 3153 root      20   0  3772  380  376 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 mingetty           
 3154 root      20   0  3772  380  376 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 mingetty           
 3155 root      20   0  3772  380  376 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 mingetty           
 3156 root      20   0  3772  380  376 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 mingetty           
 3157 root      20   0  185m 1860 1840 S    0  0.1   0:00.08 gdm-binary         
 3236 root      20   0  198m 1708 1656 S    0  0.1   0:02.27 gdm-binary         
 3239 root      20   0  185m  596  532 S    0  0.0   5:23.51 gdm-binary         
 3299 bushidoh  20   0  270m 4072 3556 S    0  0.2   0:10.45 gnome-session      
 3402 bushidoh  20   0 34156  224  192 S    0  0.0   0:05.18 ssh-agent          
 3405 bushidoh  20   0 15148  380  376 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 dbus-launch        
 3406 bushidoh  20   0 21372  680  508 S    0  0.0   0:02.15 dbus-daemon        
 3408 bushidoh  20   0 95300 3000 1444 S    0  0.1  12:08.98 gconfd-2           
 3411 bushidoh  20   0  372m 242m 2116 S    0 12.0 201:50.99 at-spi-registry    
 3414 bushidoh  20   0  194m 1960 1404 S    0  0.1   0:00.44 bonobo-activati    
 3419 bushidoh  20   0 12980  568  564 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gnome-keyring-d    
 3421 bushidoh  20   0  291m 4268 3712 S    0  0.2   6:01.94 gnome-settings-    
 3425 bushidoh  20   0  208m 8652 6276 S    0  0.4  15:58.90 metacity           
 3426 bushidoh  20   0  487m  38m 7080 S    0  1.9   6:15.02 gnome-panel        
 3428 bushidoh  20   0  925m  78m 6896 S    0  3.9  40:00.58 nautilus           
 3432 bushidoh  20   0  315m 4880 4876 S    0  0.2   0:00.30 gnome-volume-ma    
 3437 bushidoh  20   0  151m 1788 1784 S    0  0.1   0:00.18 gnome-vfs-daemo    
 3441 bushidoh  20   0  184m 3804 3384 S    0  0.2   0:00.37 bluetooth-apple    
 3448 bushidoh  20   0  386m 5796 5156 S    0  0.3   0:00.60 nm-applet          
 3458 bushidoh  20   0  414m 9248 6348 S    0  0.4   0:03.98 puplet             
 3465 bushidoh  20   0  182m 2972 2792 S    0  0.1   0:14.84 pam-panel-icon     
 3466 bushidoh  20   0  347m 5960 5000 S    0  0.3   0:24.54 gnome-power-man    
 3471 root      20   0 13040  588  528 S    0  0.0   0:38.00 pam_timestamp_c    
 3481 bushidoh  20   0  8560  664  628 S    0  0.0   0:10.99 mapping-daemon     
 3487 bushidoh  20   0  8784 1020  800 S    0  0.0   0:58.63 gam_server         
 3494 bushidoh  20   0  394m 5924 5360 S    0  0.3   0:01.57 trashapplet        
 3496 bushidoh  20   0  395m  36m 6912 S    0  1.8  38:49.30 wnck-applet        
 3501 bushidoh  20   0  398m 7088 4752 S    0  0.3  32:47.64 /usr/bin/sealer    
 3516 bushidoh  20   0  325m 6252 5360 S    0  0.3   0:01.52 fast-user-switc    
 3519 bushidoh  20   0  332m 6180 5388 S    0  0.3   0:01.52 notification-ar    
 3521 bushidoh  20   0  461m  27m 5588 S    0  1.3   2:47.10 clock-applet       
 3523 bushidoh  20   0  355m 8852 6040 S    0  0.4  24:32.38 mixer_applet2      
 3525 bushidoh  20   0  328m 6836 5664 S    0  0.3  89:31.01 multiload-apple    
 3527 bushidoh  20   0  499m  15m 6472 S    0  0.8   3:31.49 gweather-applet    
 3533 bushidoh  20   0  237m 5832 4728 S    0  0.3   2:02.06 notification-da    
 3537 bushidoh  20   0  185m 3672 2668 S    0  0.2  23:09.73 gnome-screensav    
10611 bushidoh  20   0  286m 2996 2412 S    0  0.1  16:55.92 xmms               
12710 bushidoh  20   0  166m 1644  984 S    0  0.1   8:21.20 artsd              
15169 bushidoh  20   0  352m 8588 5820 S    0  0.4  17:15.29 sensors-applet     
16165 bushidoh  20   0  317m 1720 1716 S    0  0.1   0:00.56 evolution-data-    
16191 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
16194 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
16195 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
16196 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
16197 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
16198 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
16199 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
16200 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd              
20246 root      20   0     0    0    0 D    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush            
20302 bushidoh  20   0  317m  18m  11m S    0  0.9   0:00.85 gnome-terminal     
20305 bushidoh  20   0 10600  632  528 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gnome-pty-helpe    
20306 bushidoh  20   0 74836 1692 1248 S    0  0.1   0:00.07 bash               
20314 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush            
20343 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush            
20344 root      20   0  108m 1324 1040 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 su                 
20347 root      20   0 74840 1676 1240 S    0  0.1   0:00.14 bash               
27553 bushidoh  20   0  613m  46m  10m S    0  2.3  19:11.80 gedit              
27555 bushidoh  20   0 10600  484  480 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gnome-pty-helpe    
27556 bushidoh  20   0 74836 1488 1160 S    0  0.1   0:01.78 bash

Bushido Hacks 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 2 · 2008-05-30T10:35:57+00:00

npviewer.bin has not been a problem despite its quirks. Generally when Firefox crashes or hangs up, there is another npviewr.bin task listed, but that is easily killable. Secondly, as I was using top, the browser was open, and this page had an advertisement that was using flash, so npviewer.bin is off the hook.

What else could be hogging the memory?

John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague · Answer 3 · 2008-05-30T12:47:01+00:00

Ah, my bad, I forgot we were talking about memory here!

Anyway... from the 'top' output, there are two main memory hogs: Firefox, and Xorg. Firefox is hogging over 400 megabytes of memory, while Xorg grabs a whopping 525 megabytes. While that's not 99% of your memory, that's definitely not good, either. Web browsers ideally shouldn't be taking up more than ~100 megabytes of memory under normal circumstances, but Firefox is an exception because it leaks more memory than a sieve.

Xorg is big and bloated from too many add-ons and too few optimizations. In short, you might want to try recompiling both of them, disabling unneeded components/modules and adding optimization flags whenever possible. Recompiling your kernel wouldn't hurt either.

Bushido Hacks 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 4 · 2008-05-30T20:30:44+00:00

A new kernel update was installed. This may be somewhat helpful.

Fest3er 39 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 5 · 2008-11-09T05:02:10+00:00

npviewer.bin has not been a problem despite its quirks. Generally when Firefox crashes or hangs up, there is another npviewr.bin task listed, but that is easily killable. Secondly, as I was using top, the browser was open, and this page had an advertisement that was using flash, so npviewer.bin is off the hook.
What else could be hogging the memory?

Here are your worst memory hogs. Why they are using so much memory is a good question. Your system was using 2GB of RAM and 1.1GB of swap. There's no room for disk cache, which is one reason disk access was so slow.

X is rather larger than it should be, but that's probably because some program is asking a lot of X.
The Yum updates daemon seems excessively large.
Firefox must be running a virtual computer.
Cupsd really should not be anywhere near that large.
The sensors applet should not be using 352M of memory.
Gedit must be working on a 600MB file.
a applet tools needing 300MB+ virtual and 15MB+ resident memory?
et al

Possibly, something in the display system (X, window manager, app, etc.) went haywire and is requesting a lot of memory from X. Or you were doing something splittingly large with graphics. For example, asking gimp to create a 14,000x14,000 pixel 32-bit color image will use 2GB RAM; otherwise, I find it very hard to use more than 1GB of RAM.

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
18734 bushidoh  20   0  264m 103m  12m S   23  5.1  16:34.31 npviewer.bin
 3240 root      20   0  929m 514m  11m S    6 25.6   1036:34 Xorg
 3020 root      39  19  413m 192m 4404 D    2  9.5  78:53.37 yum-updatesd
18521 bushidoh  20   0 1147m 424m  22m S    2 21.1  36:38.42 firefox-bin
 2556 root      20   0  167m 2996 1112 S    0  0.1   0:27.32 python
 2582 root      20   0  134m 1912 1296 S    0  0.1   0:17.34 cupsd
 2699 mysql     20   0  179m 2208  792 S    0  0.1  15:05.72 mysqld
 2806 root      20   0  247m  888  848 S    0  0.0   0:30.58 httpd
 3044 nobody    20   0  167m  592  588 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 fyre
 3157 root      20   0  185m 1860 1840 S    0  0.1   0:00.08 gdm-binary
 3236 root      20   0  198m 1708 1656 S    0  0.1   0:02.27 gdm-binary
 3239 root      20   0  185m  596  532 S    0  0.0   5:23.51 gdm-binary
 3299 bushidoh  20   0  270m 4072 3556 S    0  0.2   0:10.45 gnome-session
 3411 bushidoh  20   0  372m 242m 2116 S    0 12.0 201:50.99 at-spi-registry
 3414 bushidoh  20   0  194m 1960 1404 S    0  0.1   0:00.44 bonobo-activati
 3421 bushidoh  20   0  291m 4268 3712 S    0  0.2   6:01.94 gnome-settings-
 3425 bushidoh  20   0  208m 8652 6276 S    0  0.4  15:58.90 metacity
 3426 bushidoh  20   0  487m  38m 7080 S    0  1.9   6:15.02 gnome-panel
 3428 bushidoh  20   0  925m  78m 6896 S    0  3.9  40:00.58 nautilus
 3432 bushidoh  20   0  315m 4880 4876 S    0  0.2   0:00.30 gnome-volume-ma
 3437 bushidoh  20   0  151m 1788 1784 S    0  0.1   0:00.18 gnome-vfs-daemo
 3441 bushidoh  20   0  184m 3804 3384 S    0  0.2   0:00.37 bluetooth-apple
 3448 bushidoh  20   0  386m 5796 5156 S    0  0.3   0:00.60 nm-applet
 3458 bushidoh  20   0  414m 9248 6348 S    0  0.4   0:03.98 puplet
 3465 bushidoh  20   0  182m 2972 2792 S    0  0.1   0:14.84 pam-panel-icon
 3466 bushidoh  20   0  347m 5960 5000 S    0  0.3   0:24.54 gnome-power-man
 3494 bushidoh  20   0  394m 5924 5360 S    0  0.3   0:01.57 trashapplet
 3496 bushidoh  20   0  395m  36m 6912 S    0  1.8  38:49.30 wnck-applet
 3501 bushidoh  20   0  398m 7088 4752 S    0  0.3  32:47.64 /usr/bin/sealer
 3516 bushidoh  20   0  325m 6252 5360 S    0  0.3   0:01.52 fast-user-switc
 3519 bushidoh  20   0  332m 6180 5388 S    0  0.3   0:01.52 notification-ar
 3521 bushidoh  20   0  461m  27m 5588 S    0  1.3   2:47.10 clock-applet
 3523 bushidoh  20   0  355m 8852 6040 S    0  0.4  24:32.38 mixer_applet2
 3525 bushidoh  20   0  328m 6836 5664 S    0  0.3  89:31.01 multiload-apple
 3527 bushidoh  20   0  499m  15m 6472 S    0  0.8   3:31.49 gweather-applet
 3533 bushidoh  20   0  237m 5832 4728 S    0  0.3   2:02.06 notification-da
 3537 bushidoh  20   0  185m 3672 2668 S    0  0.2  23:09.73 gnome-screensav
10611 bushidoh  20   0  286m 2996 2412 S    0  0.1  16:55.92 xmms
12710 bushidoh  20   0  166m 1644  984 S    0  0.1   8:21.20 artsd
15169 bushidoh  20   0  352m 8588 5820 S    0  0.4  17:15.29 sensors-applet
16165 bushidoh  20   0  317m 1720 1716 S    0  0.1   0:00.56 evolution-data-
16191 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
16194 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
16195 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
16196 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
16197 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
16198 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
16199 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
16200 apache    20   0  247m  368  356 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 httpd
20302 bushidoh  20   0  317m  18m  11m S    0  0.9   0:00.85 gnome-terminal
20344 root      20   0  108m 1324 1040 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 su
27553 bushidoh  20   0  613m  46m  10m S    0  2.3  19:11.80 gedit

Too much memory being consumed! Also is it time to fsck my HD?

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