Ever since yesterday afternoon, my pismo's hard disk has been spinning and seeking nonstop, presumably due to massive swap activities! The amount of "free" PhysMem displayed by "top" starts at 209MB after Finder comes up, but quickly starts decreasing at 0.2MB per blink, until "free" PhysMem drops to only ~6MB (as shown below). I notice there's tons of pageins and pageouts, the latter seems to eat up my 4.3GB OS X partition (1.1GB free) until no space is left, but not before tormenting me with incessant disk-spinning noises. At first I thought it's "forty-two" that I newly installed, so I removed all traces of it. Then I stopped my QTSS. It seems to have helped a lot. Nonetheless, I still get tens of thousands of pageins and steadily increasing pageouts (972MB free at the moment, down from 1.1GB after a fresh restart). Matter of fact, Terminal and Chimera unexpected quit on me while I was typing this message the first time. What's wrong with my system?
Processes: 77 total, 2 running, 1 stuck, 74 sleeping... 148 threads 15:51:42
Load Avg: 2.47, 2.27, 2.12 CPU usage: 73.9% user, 26.1% sys, 0.0% idle
SharedLibs: num = 95, resident = 23.4M code, 2.11M data, 8.56M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 4775, resident = 214M + 12.2M private, 62.8M shared
PhysMem: 49.3M wired, 201M active, 218M inactive, 469M used, 42.9M free
VM: 1.89G + 59.4M 13293(59) pageins, 696(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
770 Navigator 4.5% 0:01.28 3 76 156 2.87M+ 11.9M+ 9.09M+ 62.8M+
769 top 8.4% 0:02.32 1 14 18 248K 376K 544K 13.6M
767 zsh 0.0% 0:00.06 1 10 15 352K 920K 1008K 2.34M
766 Terminal 38.5% 0:02.31 3 58 117 1.47M+ 7.19M 6.42M+ 47.2M
750 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.04 1 16 19 192K 812K 684K 14.4M
748 Frogblast 1.9% 0:25.83 3 98 160 4.49M 9.27M 9.80M 50.4M
742 httpd 0.0% 0:00.01 1 8 76 188K 1.52M 744K 2.79M
739 ASM_Contro 0.0% 0:00.24 1 50 72 524K 1.53M 1.51M 32.6M
730 MagicMenuH 0.0% 0:00.31 1 41 64 412K 1.69M 1.40M 32.8M
708 StatusItem 0.0% 0:00.32 1 51 76 652K 2.75M 1.71M 37.0M
689 GeekTool 0.0% 0:00.22 1 53 59 476K 1.46M 1.36M 32.8M
687 Meteorolog 0.0% 0:00.79 1 52 93 1.52M 4.50M 3.07M 42.5M
683 Desktop Re 2.6% 0:22.41 1 46 86 1.19M 5.65M 3.82M 44.4M
682 USB Monito 0.0% 0:00.71 1 57 90 868K 4.55M 2.31M 42.1M
681 OpenTermin 0.0% 0:02.00 1 54 125 3.66M 5.68M 6.38M 44.4M
Processes: 78 total, 4 running, 74 sleeping... 150 threads 16:13:10
Load Avg: 2.23, 1.68, 1.63 CPU usage: 55.6% user, 44.4% sys, 0.0% idle
SharedLibs: num = 95, resident = 15.1M code, 1.23M data, 5.71M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 5400, resident = 314M + 10.0M private, 54.7M shared
PhysMem: 49.2M wired, 302M active, 154M inactive, 506M used, 6.44M free
VM: 2.07G + 59.4M 14432(0) pageins, 4911(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
774 qtimageser 0.0% 0:00.47 1 43 73 664K 2.61M 2.17M 38.9M
770 Navigator 0.0% 4:36.59 6 93 319 15.9M 23.5M 28.1M 101M
769 top 9.7% 2:27.17 1 14 18 248K 248K 360K 13.6M
767 zsh 0.0% 0:00.06 1 10 15 336K 248K 564K 2.34M
766 Terminal 41.0% 0:30.18 3 58 122 1.64M+ 5.51M 5.93M+ 47.2M
750 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.04 1 16 19 192K 516K 684K 14.4M
748 Frogblast 1.3% 0:39.58 2 93 159 4.86M 6.86M 9.37M 50.7M
742 httpd 0.0% 0:00.01 1 8 76 188K 1012K 540K 2.79M
739 ASM_Contro 0.0% 0:00.25 1 50 72 524K 1.14M 1.41M 32.6M
730 MagicMenuH 0.0% 0:00.36 1 41 64 412K 1.17M 1.33M 32.8M
708 StatusItem 0.0% 0:00.32 1 51 76 652K 1.79M 1.57M 37.0M
689 GeekTool 0.0% 0:00.22 1 53 59 472K 1.08M 1.27M 32.8M
687 Meteorolog 0.0% 0:00.94 1 52 93 1.55M 3.00M 2.96M 42.5M
683 Desktop Re 2.7% 0:48.21 1 46 86 1.18M 4.27M 3.57M 44.4M
682 USB Monito 0.0% 0:00.71 1 57 90 864K 3.06M 2.03M 42.1M
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