Memory leaks

celeron2002 · 2005-10-13 23:08:11

when i stay a few hours in X, the xorg's consumption increase without limits until my PC was frozen... I have my packages on the edge with pacman.

i have runing:

gkrellm 2.2.7-1
aterm 1.0.0-1
irssi 0.8.9-7
mozilla-firefox 1.0.7-1
fluxbox-dev 0.9.14-1
amarok-svn

Every package are from official repositories, in exception of amarok-svn. I remember that the problem began when i upgraded firefox and kde to testing releases, but i have done the downgrades and i still have the problems

This is the ouput of "pmap -x pidofXorg" (shor version) after 1 hour.

Address   Kbytes     RSS    Anon  Locked Mode   Mapping
08048000    1608       -       -       - r-x--  Xorg
081da000     204       -       -       - rwx--  Xorg
0820d000  111376       -       -       - rwx--    [ anon ]
b64a1000   16192       -       -       - rwxs-  nvidia0
total kB  150240       -       -       -

Somebody knows what can i do?

celeron2002 · 2005-10-15 00:24:32

I have realized that the problem is with firefox, but i tried reinstalling and even recompiling it but nothing happens, i have the same problem

Somebody has the same problem with firefox (1.0.7)?

paranoos · 2005-10-15 19:37:30

use top to check how much ram is being used by the cache. heh it feels like we've discussed this to death in here.

here's mine:

Mem:    513804k total,   503088k used,    10716k free,    65696k buffers
Swap:   248968k total,    13352k used,   235616k free,   279164k cached

so i have 512mb ram ... seems to be all full. wow, i'm actually using swap, that's very rare. but you see, ~280mb of ram is just cache... programs that have been unloaded, but still in ram in case they're loaded again, for speed.

WillySilly · 2005-10-15 19:43:30

1.0.7 has the same memory leaks on ubuntu too.

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-15 20:04:44

No problems here, Firefox size (including cache) steady at 85-90 MB. But if you're having problems with it, you could try Shadowhand's firefox-devel package.

celeron2002 · 2005-10-15 23:04:53

paranoos wrote:

use top to check how much ram is being used by the cache. heh it feels like we've discussed this to death in here.
here's mine:
Mem:    513804k total,   503088k used,    10716k free,    65696k buffers
Swap:   248968k total,    13352k used,   235616k free,   279164k cached
so i have 512mb ram ... seems to be all full. wow, i'm actually using swap, that's very rare. but you see, ~280mb of ram is just cache... programs that have been unloaded, but still in ram in case they're loaded again, for speed.

I knew it, but my pc die after an hour... it isn't normal... no?

paranoos · 2005-10-16 04:17:18

celeron2002 wrote:

I knew it, but my pc die after an hour... it isn't normal... no?

well your computer shouldn't crash from a memory leak anyway, so it's probably something else entirely

dakor · 2005-11-26 08:35:21

I had the same problem with firefox-devel. After awhile after running firefox my HD would just keep grinding to the point where I couldent even move my mouse. So i downgraded.

pacman -Rc firefox-devel

pacman -Sy mozilla-firefox

That seemed to work so far although I only downgraded only about 15 min ill keep you posted.

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-26 14:55:34

Huh? I've never had that problem with Firefox-devel... Uhh, you weren't using the GTK-QT-engine were you?

dakor · 2005-11-26 19:48:23

Gullible Jones wrote:

Huh? I've never had that problem with Firefox-devel... Uhh, you weren't using the GTK-QT-engine were you?

NAh i only run gtk apps

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-26 20:53:29

Ummm... Any other weird stuff? You using an SVG theme for GTK, or some GTK engine that isn't available in the Arch repos? Mplayer or RealPlayer/Helix plugins?

dakor · 2005-12-01 04:25:06

myplayer plugin thats it

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-01 09:58:07

Ahh... Now I've had some problems with the current version of mplayer-plugin. If it plays a Quicktime movie, for example, the tab that the movie played in won't close for 5-10 seconds after you hit the close button, and Firefox will be unresponsive during that time.

Try removing that and see where that gets you. If you need to play streaming movies, use GXine from the Community repo.

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#1 2005-10-13 23:08:11

Memory leaks

#2 2005-10-15 00:24:32

Re: Memory leaks

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Re: Memory leaks

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