games - What's eating all the RAM and swap? - Ask Ubuntu


after hours after playing minecraft or game in 16.10, ram , swap gets filled invisible process, , system freezes hdd led on, it's writing ssd, nothing happens, , need force shutdown , restart computer.

to understand these issues, refer below screenshots.

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here 2 screenshots without chrome , java, adding values on first picture, it's not 1.7gb. think hidden process causes this.

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chrome can use lot of ram

when chrome window has focus press shift>+esc bring process manager:

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i've ententionally narrowed task name width hide gmail inbox name can see using on 400 mb of ram. in screen chrome using 1.7 gb of ram surfing net 10 tabs opened.

your screen shows chrome name screen shows each opened tab name track down offender. in case if wanted free ram close gamil.com.

the second large ram user earth-sunrise website has comment section. websites comment sections can burn lots of ram, in testing on 1 gb per tab on few hours. simpy refreshing tab brings usage down ~100 mb.

display java memory usage

the tool visualvm display java memory usage , other information:

java ram usage

you can download github: (visualvm)


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