I noticed that gnome-panel eats 25% (=256mb) of my memory which is quite a lot for a simple panel. Does anybody else see this too? I installed FC4Test2 and then upgraded to Rawhide.
Regards, Dennis
I noticed that the gnome-panel seems to have a memory leak. Every time new a window is opened and closed again the memory usage grows.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13643 erwin 16 0 611m 461m 12m S 0.0 24.5 2:02.01 gnome-panel
Open a new window
13643 erwin 17 0 621m 471m 12m S 42.3 25.0 2:04.89 gnome-panel
Close it
13643 erwin 15 0 621m 471m 12m S 0.0 25.0 2:04.89 gnome-panel
Open a new window
13643 erwin 17 0 629m 479m 12m R 74.2 25.5 2:07.30 gnome-panel
Close it
13643 erwin 15 0 631m 481m 12m S 0.0 25.6 2:07.77 gnome-panel
etc.
When i continue to open/close windows it eats up my 2G RAM and 4G Swap and other application start to complain they can't get memory anymore.
This is with Rawhide on x86_64.
- Erwin
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 22:56 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
I noticed that gnome-panel eats 25% (=256mb) of my memory which is quite a lot for a simple panel. Does anybody else see this too? I installed FC4Test2 and then upgraded to Rawhide.
Regards, Dennis
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 16:25 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
I noticed that the gnome-panel seems to have a memory leak. Every time new a window is opened and closed again the memory usage grows.
Not seeing this here and I've no idea why this might be happening - the applets which do anything related to open windows are in separate process (wnck-applet) so ...
Any unusual applets on your panel (they'd have to be shlib applets) ? What windows are you opening ? How ?
(Might be best to just move this to bugzilla)
Cheers, Mark.
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:39 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 16:25 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
I noticed that the gnome-panel seems to have a memory leak. Every time new a window is opened and closed again the memory usage grows.
Not seeing this here and I've no idea why this might be happening - the applets which do anything related to open windows are in separate process (wnck-applet) so ...
Any unusual applets on your panel (they'd have to be shlib applets) ?
Hmmm not really; In the top panel the menu's and System Monitor 2.10.1, Notification Area 2.10.1, Clock 2.10.1, Volume Applet 2.10.1 and Window Selector 2.10.1. In the bottom bar, Show Desktop Button 2.10.1, Windows List 2.10.1 and Workspace Switcher 2.10.1.
What windows are you opening ? How ?
Some how it seems to be related to the text in the window title or something in that area. When i open Evince from the menu nothing happens to the memory usage of gnome-panel. When i now open a PDF file with that (empty) evince the memory usage of gnome-panel jumps up. If it open a PDF from nautilus evince opens with the PDF and the memory usage of gnome-panel jumps up.
the same thing seems to be the case with archive manager, when opened from the menu nothing happens to gnome-panel memory usages, but when double clicking a tar file in nautilus or open a new tar file, the memory usage of gnome-panel jumps up.
On the other hand, opening a gnome-terminal and cd'ing around (that also sets the window title) does nothing to the memory usage of gnome-panel.
(Might be best to just move this to bugzilla)
Might be a good idea.
Cheers, Mark.
- Erwin
On 6/10/05, Erwin Rol mailinglists@erwinrol.com wrote:
On the other hand, opening a gnome-terminal and cd'ing around (that also sets the window title) does nothing to the memory usage of gnome-panel.
do both window list and window selector pick up the title change for gnome-terminal correctly?
-jef
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:52 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On 6/10/05, Erwin Rol mailinglists@erwinrol.com wrote:
On the other hand, opening a gnome-terminal and cd'ing around (that also sets the window title) does nothing to the memory usage of gnome-panel.
do both window list and window selector pick up the title change for gnome-terminal correctly?
Yes, both list and selector display the same text as the window title, and they keep up with every "cd ./somewhere/".
- Erwin
-jef
Yesterday the same thing occured again. (I usually notice this when I try to open a terminal and gnome tells me that there isn't enough memory left to do that) This time however I also realized that the eog that was sitting on my desktop for the last few days displaying a picture apparently had grown to 128mb too. After closing it and loading the same picture up again it used a mere 12mb so it seems eog is also affected by some sort of leak. The question is how an application like eog that just sits there and does nothing can leak like that.
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
I noticed that gnome-panel eats 25% (=256mb) of my memory which is quite a lot for a simple panel. Does anybody else see this too? I installed FC4Test2 and then upgraded to Rawhide.
Regards, Dennis
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:09:36AM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
This time however I also realized that the eog that was sitting on my desktop for the last few days displaying a picture apparently had grown to 128mb too. After closing it and loading the same picture up again it used a mere 12mb so it seems eog is also affected by some sort of leak.
I have seen this, too, but did not have time so far to investigate and file a bug. Open a directory with pictures (large ones will help), and browse through them with eog. Sooner or later eog will die with an out of memory error.
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