Swap usage always goes up never down 4489

Your NIS client has 19MB in swap, I presume. Don't you use it (NIS)? I have much more realistic figures:

root 1783 0.0 0.3 1444 780 ? S Aug16 0:00usr-sbin-ypbind -ypsetme

So it looks like you are leaking in ypbind. Maybe mmapped dbs.

Here you have 20MB in swap for dcopserver. It's a bit much, but could happen:

ptb 2572 0.0 2.1 16452 5524 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --dissolution

More of the same. I suspect that the extra is actually shared. Mine are also similar:

ptb 2568 plus 1 0.0 1.9 16204 5100 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: Running... ptb 2572 0.0 2.1 16452 5524 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --dissolution ptb 2641 0.0 2.6 16740 6832 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: khotkeys ptb 2580 0.1 2.6 16844 6876 ? S Aug16 3:59 kdeinit: kded ptb 2639 0.0 3.0 16888 7712 ? S Aug16 0:10 kdeinit: klipper -icon klipper -miniicon klipper ptb 2642 0.0 2.7 168 plus 168 7008 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: kwrited ptb 2575 0.0 2.4 17200 6376 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher ptb 2588 0.0 3.0 17264 7896 ? S Aug16 0:03 kdeinit: kwin -session 11a3758bc0000098484831500000023520000 ptb 2586 0.0 2.5 18840 6492 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: knotify ptb 2627 0.0 4.2 19328 10892 ? S Aug16 0:02 kdeinit: kdesktop ptb 2629 0.0 4.0 19364 10232 ? S Aug16 0:37 kdeinit: kicker ptb 2587 0.0 3.3 19740 8648 ? S Aug16 0:00 kdeinit: knotify

It looks as though all your clients share some hefty libs, large parts of which are forever unused. I don't think you can conclude too much from this data.

Double counting of shared things.

Check what that 75MB is, process by process. "kill" is yours to use.

Why should it? The stuff in swap is there because it is not needed. if it were in ram, then it would have to be swapped out again to free up ram when something else was needed, as is likely. So that's a dead cert loser of an idea.

That is a silly question. If you have a good or better tnan actual memory management strategy in mind, suggest it to the author of your favorite MM module!

Peter