Why is gnome-settings-daemon consuming a lot of memory?
Issue
- As top is shown, gnome-settings-daemon is using a lot of memory.
top - 17:26:35 up 86 days, 9:00, 359 users, load average: 7.16, 8.16, 8.45
Tasks: 4998 total, 1 running, 4946 sleeping, 46 stopped, 5 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.9%us, 5.1%sy, 0.1%ni, 89.0%id, 4.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 529226472k total, 491100416k used, 38126056k free, 1130868k buffers
Swap: 33554424k total, 640468k used, 32913956k free, 316630876k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ nFLT COMMAND
6639 maxxx 20 0 8912m 8.2g 7840 S 0.0 1.6 3391:22 0 gnome-settings-
11777 jxxx 20 0 8842m 8.1g 7908 S 1.6 1.6 3362:15 0 gnome-settings-
17960 jxxxx 20 0 8815m 8.1g 7896 S 12.8 1.6 3356:22 0 gnome-settings-
31880 hxxxx 20 0 8790m 8.1g 7880 S 11.9 1.6 3283:33 0 gnome-settings-
3902 yxxxxxxx 20 0 7036m 6.3g 7872 D 0.3 1.3 2194:04 0 gnome-settings-
27878 ixxxx 20 0 6425m 5.7g 7880 S 0.0 1.1 1924:27 0 gnome-settings-
26993 mxxxxx 20 0 6156m 5.5g 7880 S 0.0 1.1 1778:31 0 gnome-settings-
21838 gxxxxxx 20 0 5672m 5.0g 7880 S 0.0 1.0 1529:30 0 gnome-settings-
32000 txxxxxxx 20 0 5639m 5.0g 7904 S 0.0 1.0 1526:19 0 gnome-settings-
23637 jxxxx 20 0 5410m 4.8g 7908 S 0.0 0.9 596:38.76 0 gnome-settings-
5728 kxxx 20 0 5078m 4.4g 7592 S 0.0 0.9 1254:32 0 gnome-settings-
20888 pxxx 20 0 5092m 4.1g 22m S 0.0 0.8 0:14.08 33 gnome-help
18278 exxxxx 20 0 3978m 3.4g 7896 S 5.3 0.7 796:47.53 0 gnome-settings-
19076 kxxxxx 20 0 3710m 3.1g 7896 S 0.0 0.6 706:28.26 0 gnome-settings-
12696 pxxxxxx 20 0 3666m 3.1g 7608 S 0.0 0.6 713:31.73 10 gnome-settings-
13653 cxxxx 20 0 3548m 2.9g 7832 S 2.2 0.6 651:47.96 0 gnome-settings-
21114 gxxxxxxx 20 0 3168m 2.6g 7868 S 4.1 0.5 519:55.10 0 gnome-settings-
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- gnome-settings-daemon 2.28.2-30 and prior version.
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