Yo all,
It’s been a long time and I’d like to start of by introducing a python script that stdouts a well-formatted table of memory usage per process. Having decided to run the script as ‘root’ on my 512MB box this is what I had in store:
clueless ~ # python ~nareshov/Desktop/Shared/Gentoo/ps_mem.py
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
0.0 KiB + 108.0 KiB = 108.0 KiB unlinkd
32.0 KiB + 184.0 KiB = 216.0 KiB gpm
0.0 KiB + 220.0 KiB = 220.0 KiB syslog-ng
0.0 KiB + 224.0 KiB = 224.0 KiB udevd
24.0 KiB + 260.0 KiB = 284.0 KiB hald-addon-stor
0.0 KiB + 308.0 KiB = 308.0 KiB dbus-launch
0.0 KiB + 312.0 KiB = 312.0 KiB sshd
0.0 KiB + 312.0 KiB = 312.0 KiB agetty
52.0 KiB + 292.0 KiB = 344.0 KiB init
40.0 KiB + 308.0 KiB = 348.0 KiB hald-addon-keyb
56.0 KiB + 292.0 KiB = 348.0 KiB xfs
56.0 KiB + 308.0 KiB = 364.0 KiB ssh-agent
60.0 KiB + 308.0 KiB = 368.0 KiB hald-addon-acpi
0.0 KiB + 388.0 KiB = 388.0 KiB avahi-dnsconfd
0.0 KiB + 424.0 KiB = 424.0 KiB gnome-keyring-d
108.0 KiB + 320.0 KiB = 428.0 KiB gnome-pty-helpe
0.0 KiB + 440.0 KiB = 440.0 KiB hald-runner
48.0 KiB + 428.0 KiB = 476.0 KiB mapping-daemon
344.0 KiB + 276.0 KiB = 620.0 KiB wineserver
4.0 KiB + 628.0 KiB = 632.0 KiB su
60.0 KiB + 580.0 KiB = 640.0 KiB gdm
240.0 KiB + 408.0 KiB = 648.0 KiB ntpd
96.0 KiB + 588.0 KiB = 684.0 KiB gam_server
0.0 KiB + 780.0 KiB = 780.0 KiB ssh
352.0 KiB + 484.0 KiB = 836.0 KiB dbus-daemon
692.0 KiB + 340.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB nmbd
0.0 KiB + 1.1 MiB = 1.1 MiB mozilla-launche
416.0 KiB + 808.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB avahi-daemon
0.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 1.2 MiB bonobo-activati
800.0 KiB + 588.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB smbd
248.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 1.4 MiB explorer.exe
556.0 KiB + 900.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB hald
16.0 KiB + 1.5 MiB = 1.5 MiB gnome-vfs-daemo
1.0 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 2.4 MiB gconfd-2
2.0 MiB + 644.0 KiB = 2.6 MiB squid
468.0 KiB + 2.4 MiB = 2.9 MiB gnome-screensav
624.0 KiB + 2.6 MiB = 3.2 MiB gnome-settings-
1.9 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 3.3 MiB bash
196.0 KiB + 3.1 MiB = 3.3 MiB gnome-session
1.0 MiB + 2.6 MiB = 3.6 MiB gnome-power-man
980.0 KiB + 3.4 MiB = 4.4 MiB notification-ar
1.1 MiB + 3.3 MiB = 4.4 MiB clock-applet
1.1 MiB + 3.6 MiB = 4.7 MiB mixer_applet2
1.6 MiB + 4.0 MiB = 5.5 MiB notification-da
2.4 MiB + 4.4 MiB = 6.9 MiB metacity
2.5 MiB + 5.3 MiB = 7.8 MiB wnck-applet
4.7 MiB + 4.7 MiB = 9.5 MiB gnome-panel
4.9 MiB + 5.5 MiB = 10.4 MiB nautilus
10.3 MiB + 7.5 MiB = 17.8 MiB gnome-terminal
27.4 MiB + 5.5 MiB = 32.9 MiB linuxdcpp
37.0 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 38.9 MiB BitSpirit.exe
36.8 MiB + 8.5 MiB = 45.3 MiB banshee
63.0 MiB + 4.5 MiB = 67.5 MiB Xorg
89.4 MiB + 11.4 MiB = 100.8 MiB firefox-bin
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
After coming back to my senses I started thinking about possible loopholes in my Gentoo install. Let’s have
clueless ~ # uname -a
Linux clueless 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 #7 Sat Jan 20 21:56:30 IST 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
and
clueless ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:20:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils: 2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19.2-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://navya/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org"
LINGUAS="en_US ja kn_IN"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" "
SYNC="rsync://navya/gentoo-portage/"
USE="X aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cscope cups dbus directfb dlloader dri dvd dvdr emboss encode esd examples fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jpeg ldap libg++ libnotify mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal openexr opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds python quicktime readline reflection ruby samba scope sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vim-syntax vorbis x264 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US ja kn_IN" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nv nvidia vesa"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Help!