[Durham] Swap fills up then out of memory errors

[Martin Ward]

Here's the top ten memory hogs in your list:

230865    35018   1       0             0 x-www-browser
165774      396   0       0             0 xfce4-mixer-plu
141558      141   1       0             0 xfce4-volumed
135507     3618   1       0             0 nautilus
123486     4655   1       0             0 gnome-system-mo
104503     2202   1       0             0 gnome-terminal
100471      354   0       0             0 nm-applet
96166    84274   1       0             0 update-apt-xapi
92643        0   1       0             0 colord
92393     1362   1       0             0 xfce4-panel

I don't think that a mixer plugin and a volume daemon (xfce4-mixer-plu
and xfce4-volumed) should be taking nearly 400MB between them!
(I am assuming that the "total_vm" column is in KB: but you appear
to have about 7GB of swap, while the "total_vm" column totals
to only 3,378,926: so the column might be the number of 4K pages).

A Google search for: xfce4-mixer "memory leak" 
found quite a few hits.

-- 
			Martin

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