What to do ?

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I am a perl-Tk application (Sterra.pl)  with seems does not want to give 
me the hand back because of swapping !
This is vmstat:

  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
  1  2 1457888  14360   1444 247304 2401    4  2401     4  929  851 12  3 37 48  0
  3  1 1455132  16452   1444 247028 2110   11  2138    11  916  839 12  2 36 49  0
  1  1 1454860  15836   1444 247052 1646  472  1646   472  884  726 11  2 38 49  0
  2  2 1456276  16748   1440 246972 1363  747  1363   747  918  696 11  3 40 46  0
  1  1 1456304  15348   1440 247052 1465  468  1465   468  911  738 12  3 37 48  0
  2  1 1456368  15896   1440 247032 1530  559  1530   559  926  778 12  2 38 48  0

top:

top - 16:34:24 up 1 day,  6:27, 12 users,  load average: 1.75, 1.77, 1.87
Tasks: 204 total,   3 running, 201 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
[pdupre at teucidide ~]$ sy,  1.2%ni, 61.9%id,  2.8%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Mem:   2012948k total,  1996616k used,    16332k free,     1288k buffers
Swap:  3004112k total,  1453320k used,  1550792k free,   242848k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2839 root      20   0  412m  51m  30m S 13.8  2.6  72:44.51 X
16440 pdupre    20   0  351m 5648 3256 S  9.8  0.3   5:57.26 
gnome-system-mo
    31 root      15  -5     0    0    0 D  2.0  0.0   0:48.82 kswapd0
10253 pdupre    20   0 2730m 1.3g  744 D  2.0 66.8 745:29.88 Sterra.pl
17130 pdupre    20   0 14852 1116  772 R  2.0  0.1   0:00.01 top
     1 root      20   0  4076  280  200 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.58 init
     2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd
     3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0

I need to have my application finishing properly !

Thank
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  Patrick DUPRÉ                      |   |
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