Investigating high memory usage

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Currently I have high memory usage, this happen only this last days after I upgrade my system and installed packages using gcc 4.4, the top command show this:

Code: 
last pid:  5218;  load averages:  0.20,  0.12,  0.06                                                                 up 0+07:38:20  17:10:18
90 processes:  1 running, 89 sleeping
CPU:  1.1% user,  0.0% nice,  0.3% system,  0.2% interrupt, 98.4% idle
Mem: 1241M Active, 142M Inact, 521M Wired, 55M Cache, 213M Buf, 17M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 1813M Used, 235M Free, 88% Inuse

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 1454 SIFE          1  46    0   291M   168M select  0  10:03  4.39% Xorg
 1587 SIFE          3  71    0   276M 21620K piperd  2   0:49  1.37% gnome-terminal
 1492 SIFE          4  45    0   190M  4240K select  1   8:16  0.00% pulseaudio
 1502 SIFE          2  44    0   280M 18340K select  0   0:54  0.00% wnck-applet
 1651 SIFE          2  76    0   358M 21688K piperd  2   0:50  0.00% geany
 1482 SIFE          3  47    0   284M 16896K piperd  0   0:45  0.00% metacity
 1485 SIFE          2  44    0   401M 33672K select  0   0:44  0.00% nautilus
 4468 SIFE          7  44    0   169M 14392K uwait   1   0:38  0.00% conky
 1479 SIFE          1  44    0 48500K  3532K select  0   0:16  0.00% gam_server
 5200 SIFE         15  50    0   436M   128M ucond   0   0:13  0.00% firefox-bin
 1483 SIFE          2  44    0   332M 21068K select  0   0:10  0.00% gnome-panel
 1471 SIFE          2  60    0   341M 15600K select  0   0:08  0.00% gnome-settings-daem
 1493 SIFE          1  44    0   203M 12596K select  0   0:05  0.00% gnome-screensaver
 1462 SIFE          1  44    0 11788K  1924K select  0   0:03  0.00% dbus-daemon
 1467 SIFE          1  44    0 73100K  6056K select  0   0:02  0.00% gconfd-2
 1458 SIFE          3  57    0   177M 10544K piperd  2   0:01  0.00% gnome-session
 1489 SIFE          2  58    0   190M 10928K select  1   0:01  0.00% gnome-power-manager
 1507 SIFE          1  44    0 52276K  3628K select  1   0:01  0.00% gvfsd-trash
 1514 SIFE          2  45    0   286M 14836K select  2   0:01  0.00% clock-applet
 1509 SIFE          1  44    0 47412K  3644K select  2   0:01  0.00% gvfs-hal-volume-mon
 1515 SIFE          2  51    0   212M 10340K select  2   0:01  0.00% notification-area-a
 1487 SIFE          1  44    0   352M 14176K select  0   0:01  0.00% gnome-volume-contro
 1477 SIFE          1  44    0 45884K  3200K select  0   0:00  0.00% gvfsd
 1475 SIFE          4  50    0 45044K  4104K select  2   0:00  0.00% gnome-keyring-daemo
 1529 SIFE          1  44    0 39192K  3732K select  0   0:00  0.00% gvfsd-metadata
 1484 SIFE          1  44    0 25424K  1128K piperd  0   0:00  0.00% libgtop_server2
 1871 SIFE          1  44    0 21968K  1792K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% mysql
 1495 SIFE          3  48    0 49960K  3256K select  2   0:00  0.00% bonobo-activation-s
 3600 SIFE          1  45    0 13984K  1752K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% bash
 1886 SIFE          1  44    0 13984K  1744K wait    0   0:00  0.00% bash
 1497 SIFE          2  54    0   102M  4060K select  2   0:00  0.00% gconf-helper
 1511 SIFE          1  44    0 51336K  3240K select  2   0:00  0.00% gvfs-gphoto2-volume
 1619 SIFE          1  44    0 13984K     0K wait    2   0:00  0.00% <bash>
 1589 SIFE          1  44    0 13984K     0K wait    1   0:00  0.00% <bash>
 1525 SIFE          1  44    0 45884K  2892K select  1   0:00  0.00% gvfsd-burn
 1653 SIFE          1  44    0 13984K   896K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% bash
 5192 SIFE          1  50    0  8812K  1528K wait    1   0:00  0.00% sh
 1588 SIFE          1  44    0  8376K     0K sbwait  0   0:00  0.00% <gnome-pty-helper>
I have AMD64, FreeBSD 8.2 PRELEASE, currently up to 90% of memory in use, and 88% of swap in use, due this issues I get the message of running out of space.
 
I rebuild my packages with gcc of base system and I am still get high memory usage, most of usage come from Gnome, I have version 2.32.1
 
Code: 
last pid:  3131;  load averages:  0.20,  0.15,  0.15  up 0+13:13:42    11:25:30
96 processes:  1 running, 95 sleeping

Mem: 724M Active, 649M Inact, 472M Wired, 35M Cache, 213M Buf, 95M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free


  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 2980 SIFE         15  76    0   817M   449M ucond   2  10:19  2.98% firefox-bin
 1454 SIFE          1  46    0   288M   214M select  1  12:06  2.29% Xorg
 3108 SIFE          7  44    0   370M   111M select  0   0:26  0.00% soffice.bin
 2038 SIFE          3  44    0   315M 48608K piperd  2   0:16  0.00% nautilus
 3037 SIFE          1  44    0   185M 34292K select  0   0:10  0.00% skype
 3035 SIFE          1  44    0   185M 34292K select  1   0:03  0.00% skype
 3038 SIFE          1  44    0   185M 34292K nanslp  1   0:00  0.00% skype
 3042 SIFE          1  44    0   185M 34292K futex   0   0:00  0.00% skype
 3044 SIFE          1  46    0   185M 34292K futex   2   0:00  0.00% skype
 3036 SIFE          1  44    0   185M 34292K futex   0   0:00  0.00% skype
 3039 SIFE          1  44    0   185M 34292K futex   0   0:00  0.00% skype
 3040 SIFE          1  76    0   185M 34292K futex   1   0:00  0.00% skype
 1483 SIFE          2  44    0   261M 31068K select  2   0:07  0.00% gnome-panel
 3007 SIFE          2  76    0   218M 29164K piperd  0   0:38  0.00% geany
 1471 SIFE          2  59    0   275M 24948K select  0   0:07  0.00% gnome-settings-daem
 3127 SIFE          3  76    0   218M 23784K piperd  1   0:01  0.49% gnome-terminal
 1505 SIFE          2  44    0   223M 23424K select  0   0:25  0.68% wnck-applet
 1482 SIFE          2  57    0   223M 23264K select  1   0:34  0.29% metacity
 1514 SIFE          2  47    0   228M 21280K select  2   0:01  0.00% clock-applet
 1487 SIFE          1  44    0   293M 20100K select  2   0:00  0.00% gnome-volume-contro
 3000 SIFE          1  44    0 72912K 18320K select  0   0:09  0.00% npviewer.bin
 1493 SIFE          1  44    0   141M 17032K select  1   0:04  0.00% gnome-screensaver
 1489 SIFE          2  54    0   134M 15032K select  0   0:01  0.00% gnome-power-manager
 1458 SIFE          3  44    0   125M 14080K piperd  1   0:01  0.00% gnome-session
 1515 SIFE          2  46    0   169M 13860K select  1   0:00  0.00% notification-area-a
 1467 SIFE          1  44    0 59156K  8636K select  0   0:01  0.00% gconfd-2
 1497 SIFE          2  51    0 72604K  7380K select  2   0:00  0.00% gconf-helper
 1495 SIFE          3  47    0 34812K  6552K select  0   0:00  0.00% bonobo-activation-s
 1492 SIFE          4  45    0   166M  6184K select  2   0:00  0.00% pulseaudio
 1475 SIFE          4  48    0 34072K  5796K select  2   0:00  0.00% gnome-keyring-daemo
 1531 SIFE          1  44    0 29252K  5484K select  2   0:00  0.00% gvfsd-metadata
 3078 SIFE          1  44    0 34396K  5132K select  2   0:00  0.00% gvfs-hal-volume-mon
 1509 SIFE          1  44    0 38240K  4904K select  0   0:02  0.00% gvfsd-trash
 1511 SIFE          1  44    0 36276K  4776K select  0   0:00  0.00% gvfs-gphoto2-volume
 1527 SIFE          1  44    0 33892K  4324K select  2   0:00  0.00% gvfsd-burn
 1477 SIFE          1  44    0 33892K  4092K select  1   0:00  0.00% gvfsd
 1479 SIFE          1  44    0 13996K  3744K select  0   0:22  0.00% gam_server
 1434 SIFE          1  44    0 10916K  2476K wait    0   0:00  0.00% bash
 3129 SIFE          1  44    0 10916K  2472K wait    0   0:00  0.00% bash
 1462 SIFE          1  44    0  8628K  2460K select  0   0:00  0.00% dbus-daemon
 3009 SIFE          1  60    0 10916K  2448K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% bash
 1461 SIFE          1  44    0 17516K  2244K select  1   0:00  0.00% dbus-launch
 1453 SIFE          1  51    0 14132K  1884K wait    0   0:00  0.00% xinit
 3131 SIFE          1  44    0  9912K  1828K CPU2    2   0:00  0.00% top
 1484 SIFE          1  44    0 19380K  1716K piperd  2   0:00  0.00% libgtop_server2
 2976 SIFE          1  76    0  8812K  1576K wait    1   0:00  0.00% sh
 1435 SIFE          1  76    0  8812K  1568K wait    0   0:00  0.00% sh
 3099 SIFE          1  76    0  8812K  1544K wait    0   0:00  0.00% sh
 2972 SIFE          1  55    0  8812K  1540K wait    1   0:00  0.00% sh
 3095 SIFE          1  71    0  8812K  1504K wait    2   0:00  0.00% sh
 1457 SIFE          1  52    0  8812K  1468K wait    0   0:00  0.00% sh
 3008 SIFE          1  76    0  8380K  1392K sbwait  0   0:00  0.00% gnome-pty-helper
 3128 SIFE          1  76    0  8376K  1368K sbwait  0   0:00  0.00% gnome-pty-helper
I have 2GB of RAM.
 
In the second/last top command, You have about PLENTY free RAM, and no SWAP usage:
Code: 
649M Inact (...) 213M Buf (...) 95M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free 649M Inact
 
Code: 
last pid:  7246;  load averages:  0.25,  0.42,  0.24  up 0+18:43:21    16:55:09
91 processes:  1 running, 90 sleeping

Mem: 1218M Active, 173M Inact, 503M Wired, 64M Cache, 213M Buf, 18M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 1794M Used, 254M Free, 87% Inuse


  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 7206 SIFE         16  44    0   808M   348M ucond   1   3:01  4.30% firefox-bin
 1454 SIFE          1  47    0   286M   183M select  1  25:30  5.57% Xorg
 2038 SIFE          3  44    0   424M 29520K piperd  1   0:34  0.49% nautilus
 3007 SIFE          2  76    0   311M 20132K piperd  0   1:40  0.00% geany
 3127 SIFE          3  76    0   223M 18456K piperd  1   0:28  5.47% gnome-terminal
 7233 SIFE          7  44    0   122M 15932K uwait   1   0:00  1.37% conky
 1483 SIFE          2  44    0   312M 15232K select  1   0:13  0.00% gnome-panel
 1505 SIFE          2  44    0   225M 14532K select  1   1:55  0.00% wnck-applet
 1482 SIFE          3  45    0   155M 13752K piperd  2   1:45  1.76% metacity
 1514 SIFE          2  44    0   155M 12084K select  0   0:02  0.00% clock-applet
 1471 SIFE          2  59    0   275M 11216K select  0   0:13  0.00% gnome-settings-daem
 7226 SIFE          1  44    0 35176K 10916K select  0   0:02  0.00% npviewer.bin
 1493 SIFE          1  44    0   141M 10552K select  1   0:07  0.00% gnome-screensaver
 1487 SIFE          1  44    0   293M 10524K select  1   0:01  0.00% gnome-volume-contro
 1489 SIFE          2  54    0   134M  9156K select  0   0:01  0.00% gnome-power-manager
 1515 SIFE          2  44    0    99M  8716K select  0   0:01  0.00% notification-area-a
 1458 SIFE          3  44    0   125M  8644K piperd  1   0:01  0.00% gnome-session
 1467 SIFE          1  44    0 59156K  4588K select  0   0:01  0.00% gconfd-2
 1475 SIFE          4  48    0 34072K  3860K select  2   0:00  0.00% gnome-keyring-daemo
 1497 SIFE          2  51    0 72604K  3704K select  2   0:00  0.00% gconf-helper
 3078 SIFE          1  44    0 34396K  3320K select  1   0:01  0.00% gvfs-hal-volume-mon
 1531 SIFE          1  44    0 29252K  3288K select  2   0:00  0.00% gvfsd-metadata
 1509 SIFE          1  44    0 38240K  3192K select  0   0:03  0.00% gvfsd-trash
 1511 SIFE          1  44    0 36276K  2980K select  0   0:00  0.00% gvfs-gphoto2-volume
 1477 SIFE          1  44    0 33892K  2976K select  2   0:00  0.00% gvfsd
 1495 SIFE          3  47    0 34812K  2932K select  0   0:00  0.00% bonobo-activation-s
 1527 SIFE          1  44    0 33892K  2712K select  2   0:00  0.00% gvfsd-burn
 1492 SIFE          4  45    0   166M  2676K select  2   1:58  0.00% pulseaudio
 1479 SIFE          1  44    0 16044K  2452K select  0   0:37  0.00% gam_server
 3132 SIFE          1  44    0 10916K  1988K ttyin   1   0:00  0.00% bash
 1462 SIFE          1  44    0  8628K  1836K select  2   0:02  0.00% dbus-daemon
 3129 SIFE          1  44    0 10916K  1780K wait    0   0:00  0.00% bash
 7246 SIFE          1  44    0  9912K  1772K CPU1    0   0:00  0.00% top
 7202 SIFE          1  76    0  8812K  1388K wait    1   0:00  0.00% sh
 7198 SIFE          1  57    0  8812K  1352K wait    2   0:00  0.00% sh
 1461 SIFE          1  44    0 17516K  1328K select  1   0:00  0.00% dbus-launch
 1484 SIFE          1  44    0 19380K  1188K piperd  1   0:00  0.00% libgtop_server2
 3009 SIFE          1  44    0 10916K   860K ttyin   0   0:00  0.00% bash
 5578 SIFE          1  44    0 21120K     0K wait    0   0:00  0.00% <su>
 1453 SIFE          1  51    0 14132K     0K wait    0   0:00  0.00% <xinit>
 5577 SIFE          1  44    0 10916K     0K wait    2   0:00  0.00% <bash>
 1434 SIFE          1  44    0 10916K     0K wait    0   0:00  0.00% <bash>
 1435 SIFE          1  76    0  8812K     0K wait    0   0:00  0.00% <sh>
 1457 SIFE          1  52    0  8812K     0K wait    0   0:00  0.00% <sh>
 3008 SIFE          1  76    0  8380K     0K sbwait  0   0:00  0.00% <gnome-pty-helper>
 3128 SIFE          1  44    0  8376K     0K sbwait  1   0:00  0.00% <gnome-pty-helper>
Most of time I running: firefox, geany editor and skype, all of this and I get a lot of:
Code: 
swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed
From time to a time, this happend to me since last upgrade from Gnome 2.30.1 to recent Gnome, I tried to rebuild all packages and no hope.
 
(guessing) ucond doing character translations from one alphabet to another? Can you find which program is running it with the pstree or similar command?
Code: 
pkill ucond
and see if everything still works or if the
memory improves? also install /freecolor/
and
Code: 
freecolor
before and after the above?
 
I did what you said Mr jb_fvwm2, and nothing changed, sysutils/freecolor does not work in AMD64.
From a time to a time I am getting out_of_swap message in logs even I don't much then geany, firefox and sometimes vlc, as I said before I am in this problem since I upgrade to latest gnome.
I think I have to reinstall my system and see if any think changed.
 
gmome-lite?
Clear each browser's cache every hour or so?
Code: 
#!/bin/sh
/bin/rm -v  /usr/SIFE/.mozilla/firefox/******.default/Cache/*
# (adjust paths)
pkill gam_server  # ?
Howsoever, your first post points to lots of memory used by Skype. Find out how to lessen those instances to just one?
 
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