Sudden use of memory report change to 100%





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I'm pasting the commands I've learned on SuperUser/Unix & Linux Stack help. Is this a common report? I do find that the memory is responsive and available, tho the conky report was reading about 9% after booting and loading only the terminal. Now at the same point, after a few minutes, conky says 98%.



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I was using Firefox, adding extensions that I used on Chrome, when soon I noticed the change. Now the memory meter goes to 100% even before launching Firefox or Chrome. Also I'm curious about the huge reserves made by Chrome browser, and wether or not that is normal. Thank you.



$ smem --realmem=16G --system --percent



Area                           Used      Cache   Noncache 
firmware/hardware 2.11% 0.00% 2.11%
kernel image 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
kernel dynamic memory 85.85% 83.77% 2.08%
userspace memory 6.94% 1.76% 5.18%
free memory 5.10% 5.10% 0.00%



UPDATE: Curious output of 'anonymous'



$ smem -wkmr | head -n 10



Map                                       PIDs   AVGPSS      PSS 
<anonymous> 94 13.0M 1.2G
[heap] 66 4.3M 282.8M
/opt/google/chrome/chrome 27 5.2M 140.1M
/dev/nvidiactl 3 14.6M 43.9M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk- 7 2.0M 14.0M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glco 3 4.1M 12.3M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/Default 1 8.9M 8.9M
/SYSV00000000 6 1.5M 8.8M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/PepperF 23 371.0K 8.3M



$ ps auxf | awk '{print $6/1024 " MBtt" $11}' | sort -n



0 MB        _ 
### ... 143 identical lines omitted ... ###
0 MB COMMAND
0 MB [kthreadd]
0.105469 MB /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd
0.3125 MB _
0.316406 MB _
0.777344 MB /usr/sbin/acpid
0.855469 MB _
1.37891 MB _
1.47266 MB /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced
1.57031 MB /sbin/lvmetad
1.97266 MB /usr/sbin/atd
2.29297 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.38672 MB /usr/sbin/cpufreqd
2.40234 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.59375 MB /usr/sbin/cron
2.67969 MB /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon
2.95703 MB _
### ... skipping 90 lines ... ###
10.8828 MB /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
11.0391 MB /usr/bin/whoopsie
11.9883 MB /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd
12.375 MB /usr/sbin/nmbd
14.1445 MB /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/colord
14.3398 MB _
15.2109 MB |
15.2969 MB /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
15.4727 MB _
15.7344 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
16.2031 MB |
16.4297 MB |
16.6094 MB |
16.8789 MB /usr/bin/python3
17.2031 MB _
17.4102 MB |
17.4375 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
17.543 MB _
18.1094 MB _
18.1133 MB |
18.1367 MB /usr/bin/python3
18.457 MB |
18.668 MB /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd
18.8164 MB _
19.043 MB _
19.5352 MB _
20.3633 MB _
20.8047 MB /usr/sbin/smbd
20.8086 MB |
22.3086 MB /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
22.3828 MB _
25.9102 MB _
26.0078 MB /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
37.0781 MB /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
37.8789 MB _
39.6094 MB _
40.3398 MB _
40.5273 MB |
42.332 MB _
43.9883 MB _
48.4648 MB _
50.5547 MB _
51.5938 MB _
62.5781 MB _
66.8633 MB |
107.23 MB _
204.27 MB |
231.957 MB _


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  • Are you running a beta Chrome?

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:31











  • Memory not used to run an app, is used for disk/file cache... and as such... it'll look like memory is close to 100% utilized.

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:33











  • Oddly, I guess, I wasn't running a Chrome Beta until today. It doesn't seem to hinder performance that the cache is large... somewhere. But that just changed overnight after months of normal behavior.

    – tidelake
    Apr 6 at 4:42











  • Boy it sure looks like a Chrome or Chrome extension problem. I'd uninstall it and see what happens.

    – heynnema
    Apr 6 at 10:30


















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I'm pasting the commands I've learned on SuperUser/Unix & Linux Stack help. Is this a common report? I do find that the memory is responsive and available, tho the conky report was reading about 9% after booting and loading only the terminal. Now at the same point, after a few minutes, conky says 98%.



enter image description here



I was using Firefox, adding extensions that I used on Chrome, when soon I noticed the change. Now the memory meter goes to 100% even before launching Firefox or Chrome. Also I'm curious about the huge reserves made by Chrome browser, and wether or not that is normal. Thank you.



$ smem --realmem=16G --system --percent



Area                           Used      Cache   Noncache 
firmware/hardware 2.11% 0.00% 2.11%
kernel image 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
kernel dynamic memory 85.85% 83.77% 2.08%
userspace memory 6.94% 1.76% 5.18%
free memory 5.10% 5.10% 0.00%



UPDATE: Curious output of 'anonymous'



$ smem -wkmr | head -n 10



Map                                       PIDs   AVGPSS      PSS 
<anonymous> 94 13.0M 1.2G
[heap] 66 4.3M 282.8M
/opt/google/chrome/chrome 27 5.2M 140.1M
/dev/nvidiactl 3 14.6M 43.9M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk- 7 2.0M 14.0M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glco 3 4.1M 12.3M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/Default 1 8.9M 8.9M
/SYSV00000000 6 1.5M 8.8M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/PepperF 23 371.0K 8.3M



$ ps auxf | awk '{print $6/1024 " MBtt" $11}' | sort -n



0 MB        _ 
### ... 143 identical lines omitted ... ###
0 MB COMMAND
0 MB [kthreadd]
0.105469 MB /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd
0.3125 MB _
0.316406 MB _
0.777344 MB /usr/sbin/acpid
0.855469 MB _
1.37891 MB _
1.47266 MB /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced
1.57031 MB /sbin/lvmetad
1.97266 MB /usr/sbin/atd
2.29297 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.38672 MB /usr/sbin/cpufreqd
2.40234 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.59375 MB /usr/sbin/cron
2.67969 MB /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon
2.95703 MB _
### ... skipping 90 lines ... ###
10.8828 MB /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
11.0391 MB /usr/bin/whoopsie
11.9883 MB /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd
12.375 MB /usr/sbin/nmbd
14.1445 MB /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/colord
14.3398 MB _
15.2109 MB |
15.2969 MB /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
15.4727 MB _
15.7344 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
16.2031 MB |
16.4297 MB |
16.6094 MB |
16.8789 MB /usr/bin/python3
17.2031 MB _
17.4102 MB |
17.4375 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
17.543 MB _
18.1094 MB _
18.1133 MB |
18.1367 MB /usr/bin/python3
18.457 MB |
18.668 MB /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd
18.8164 MB _
19.043 MB _
19.5352 MB _
20.3633 MB _
20.8047 MB /usr/sbin/smbd
20.8086 MB |
22.3086 MB /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
22.3828 MB _
25.9102 MB _
26.0078 MB /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
37.0781 MB /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
37.8789 MB _
39.6094 MB _
40.3398 MB _
40.5273 MB |
42.332 MB _
43.9883 MB _
48.4648 MB _
50.5547 MB _
51.5938 MB _
62.5781 MB _
66.8633 MB |
107.23 MB _
204.27 MB |
231.957 MB _


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  • Are you running a beta Chrome?

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:31











  • Memory not used to run an app, is used for disk/file cache... and as such... it'll look like memory is close to 100% utilized.

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:33











  • Oddly, I guess, I wasn't running a Chrome Beta until today. It doesn't seem to hinder performance that the cache is large... somewhere. But that just changed overnight after months of normal behavior.

    – tidelake
    Apr 6 at 4:42











  • Boy it sure looks like a Chrome or Chrome extension problem. I'd uninstall it and see what happens.

    – heynnema
    Apr 6 at 10:30














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I'm pasting the commands I've learned on SuperUser/Unix & Linux Stack help. Is this a common report? I do find that the memory is responsive and available, tho the conky report was reading about 9% after booting and loading only the terminal. Now at the same point, after a few minutes, conky says 98%.



enter image description here



I was using Firefox, adding extensions that I used on Chrome, when soon I noticed the change. Now the memory meter goes to 100% even before launching Firefox or Chrome. Also I'm curious about the huge reserves made by Chrome browser, and wether or not that is normal. Thank you.



$ smem --realmem=16G --system --percent



Area                           Used      Cache   Noncache 
firmware/hardware 2.11% 0.00% 2.11%
kernel image 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
kernel dynamic memory 85.85% 83.77% 2.08%
userspace memory 6.94% 1.76% 5.18%
free memory 5.10% 5.10% 0.00%



UPDATE: Curious output of 'anonymous'



$ smem -wkmr | head -n 10



Map                                       PIDs   AVGPSS      PSS 
<anonymous> 94 13.0M 1.2G
[heap] 66 4.3M 282.8M
/opt/google/chrome/chrome 27 5.2M 140.1M
/dev/nvidiactl 3 14.6M 43.9M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk- 7 2.0M 14.0M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glco 3 4.1M 12.3M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/Default 1 8.9M 8.9M
/SYSV00000000 6 1.5M 8.8M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/PepperF 23 371.0K 8.3M



$ ps auxf | awk '{print $6/1024 " MBtt" $11}' | sort -n



0 MB        _ 
### ... 143 identical lines omitted ... ###
0 MB COMMAND
0 MB [kthreadd]
0.105469 MB /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd
0.3125 MB _
0.316406 MB _
0.777344 MB /usr/sbin/acpid
0.855469 MB _
1.37891 MB _
1.47266 MB /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced
1.57031 MB /sbin/lvmetad
1.97266 MB /usr/sbin/atd
2.29297 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.38672 MB /usr/sbin/cpufreqd
2.40234 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.59375 MB /usr/sbin/cron
2.67969 MB /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon
2.95703 MB _
### ... skipping 90 lines ... ###
10.8828 MB /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
11.0391 MB /usr/bin/whoopsie
11.9883 MB /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd
12.375 MB /usr/sbin/nmbd
14.1445 MB /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/colord
14.3398 MB _
15.2109 MB |
15.2969 MB /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
15.4727 MB _
15.7344 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
16.2031 MB |
16.4297 MB |
16.6094 MB |
16.8789 MB /usr/bin/python3
17.2031 MB _
17.4102 MB |
17.4375 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
17.543 MB _
18.1094 MB _
18.1133 MB |
18.1367 MB /usr/bin/python3
18.457 MB |
18.668 MB /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd
18.8164 MB _
19.043 MB _
19.5352 MB _
20.3633 MB _
20.8047 MB /usr/sbin/smbd
20.8086 MB |
22.3086 MB /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
22.3828 MB _
25.9102 MB _
26.0078 MB /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
37.0781 MB /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
37.8789 MB _
39.6094 MB _
40.3398 MB _
40.5273 MB |
42.332 MB _
43.9883 MB _
48.4648 MB _
50.5547 MB _
51.5938 MB _
62.5781 MB _
66.8633 MB |
107.23 MB _
204.27 MB |
231.957 MB _


enter image description here










share|improve this question
















I'm pasting the commands I've learned on SuperUser/Unix & Linux Stack help. Is this a common report? I do find that the memory is responsive and available, tho the conky report was reading about 9% after booting and loading only the terminal. Now at the same point, after a few minutes, conky says 98%.



enter image description here



I was using Firefox, adding extensions that I used on Chrome, when soon I noticed the change. Now the memory meter goes to 100% even before launching Firefox or Chrome. Also I'm curious about the huge reserves made by Chrome browser, and wether or not that is normal. Thank you.



$ smem --realmem=16G --system --percent



Area                           Used      Cache   Noncache 
firmware/hardware 2.11% 0.00% 2.11%
kernel image 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
kernel dynamic memory 85.85% 83.77% 2.08%
userspace memory 6.94% 1.76% 5.18%
free memory 5.10% 5.10% 0.00%



UPDATE: Curious output of 'anonymous'



$ smem -wkmr | head -n 10



Map                                       PIDs   AVGPSS      PSS 
<anonymous> 94 13.0M 1.2G
[heap] 66 4.3M 282.8M
/opt/google/chrome/chrome 27 5.2M 140.1M
/dev/nvidiactl 3 14.6M 43.9M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk- 7 2.0M 14.0M
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glco 3 4.1M 12.3M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/Default 1 8.9M 8.9M
/SYSV00000000 6 1.5M 8.8M
/home/jess/.config/google-chrome/PepperF 23 371.0K 8.3M



$ ps auxf | awk '{print $6/1024 " MBtt" $11}' | sort -n



0 MB        _ 
### ... 143 identical lines omitted ... ###
0 MB COMMAND
0 MB [kthreadd]
0.105469 MB /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd
0.3125 MB _
0.316406 MB _
0.777344 MB /usr/sbin/acpid
0.855469 MB _
1.37891 MB _
1.47266 MB /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced
1.57031 MB /sbin/lvmetad
1.97266 MB /usr/sbin/atd
2.29297 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.38672 MB /usr/sbin/cpufreqd
2.40234 MB /usr/sbin/kerneloops
2.59375 MB /usr/sbin/cron
2.67969 MB /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon
2.95703 MB _
### ... skipping 90 lines ... ###
10.8828 MB /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
11.0391 MB /usr/bin/whoopsie
11.9883 MB /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd
12.375 MB /usr/sbin/nmbd
14.1445 MB /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/colord
14.3398 MB _
15.2109 MB |
15.2969 MB /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
15.4727 MB _
15.7344 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
16.2031 MB |
16.4297 MB |
16.6094 MB |
16.8789 MB /usr/bin/python3
17.2031 MB _
17.4102 MB |
17.4375 MB /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11
17.543 MB _
18.1094 MB _
18.1133 MB |
18.1367 MB /usr/bin/python3
18.457 MB |
18.668 MB /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd
18.8164 MB _
19.043 MB _
19.5352 MB _
20.3633 MB _
20.8047 MB /usr/sbin/smbd
20.8086 MB |
22.3086 MB /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
22.3828 MB _
25.9102 MB _
26.0078 MB /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
37.0781 MB /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
37.8789 MB _
39.6094 MB _
40.3398 MB _
40.5273 MB |
42.332 MB _
43.9883 MB _
48.4648 MB _
50.5547 MB _
51.5938 MB _
62.5781 MB _
66.8633 MB |
107.23 MB _
204.27 MB |
231.957 MB _


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  • Are you running a beta Chrome?

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:31











  • Memory not used to run an app, is used for disk/file cache... and as such... it'll look like memory is close to 100% utilized.

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:33











  • Oddly, I guess, I wasn't running a Chrome Beta until today. It doesn't seem to hinder performance that the cache is large... somewhere. But that just changed overnight after months of normal behavior.

    – tidelake
    Apr 6 at 4:42











  • Boy it sure looks like a Chrome or Chrome extension problem. I'd uninstall it and see what happens.

    – heynnema
    Apr 6 at 10:30



















  • Are you running a beta Chrome?

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:31











  • Memory not used to run an app, is used for disk/file cache... and as such... it'll look like memory is close to 100% utilized.

    – heynnema
    Apr 5 at 20:33











  • Oddly, I guess, I wasn't running a Chrome Beta until today. It doesn't seem to hinder performance that the cache is large... somewhere. But that just changed overnight after months of normal behavior.

    – tidelake
    Apr 6 at 4:42











  • Boy it sure looks like a Chrome or Chrome extension problem. I'd uninstall it and see what happens.

    – heynnema
    Apr 6 at 10:30

















Are you running a beta Chrome?

– heynnema
Apr 5 at 20:31





Are you running a beta Chrome?

– heynnema
Apr 5 at 20:31













Memory not used to run an app, is used for disk/file cache... and as such... it'll look like memory is close to 100% utilized.

– heynnema
Apr 5 at 20:33





Memory not used to run an app, is used for disk/file cache... and as such... it'll look like memory is close to 100% utilized.

– heynnema
Apr 5 at 20:33













Oddly, I guess, I wasn't running a Chrome Beta until today. It doesn't seem to hinder performance that the cache is large... somewhere. But that just changed overnight after months of normal behavior.

– tidelake
Apr 6 at 4:42





Oddly, I guess, I wasn't running a Chrome Beta until today. It doesn't seem to hinder performance that the cache is large... somewhere. But that just changed overnight after months of normal behavior.

– tidelake
Apr 6 at 4:42













Boy it sure looks like a Chrome or Chrome extension problem. I'd uninstall it and see what happens.

– heynnema
Apr 6 at 10:30





Boy it sure looks like a Chrome or Chrome extension problem. I'd uninstall it and see what happens.

– heynnema
Apr 6 at 10:30










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Thanks to everyone who helped. The answer was something simpler. I had changed the conky script argument, such that resetting, in .conkyrc: no_buffers = true fixed that problem. I mistakenly thought that had something to do with buffering the data used by conky during the interval (?)... thank you.






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    Thanks to everyone who helped. The answer was something simpler. I had changed the conky script argument, such that resetting, in .conkyrc: no_buffers = true fixed that problem. I mistakenly thought that had something to do with buffering the data used by conky during the interval (?)... thank you.






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      Thanks to everyone who helped. The answer was something simpler. I had changed the conky script argument, such that resetting, in .conkyrc: no_buffers = true fixed that problem. I mistakenly thought that had something to do with buffering the data used by conky during the interval (?)... thank you.






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        Thanks to everyone who helped. The answer was something simpler. I had changed the conky script argument, such that resetting, in .conkyrc: no_buffers = true fixed that problem. I mistakenly thought that had something to do with buffering the data used by conky during the interval (?)... thank you.






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        Thanks to everyone who helped. The answer was something simpler. I had changed the conky script argument, such that resetting, in .conkyrc: no_buffers = true fixed that problem. I mistakenly thought that had something to do with buffering the data used by conky during the interval (?)... thank you.







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