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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

SLIM is growing

I noticed that at every login, slim is using more memory... But if I telinit 3 and telinit 5 again, the ram-usage is back like before (I start slim from inittab). Does anyone know why this happens, and how it can be prevented?

(at first login, the whole desktop used 15% of 512MB ram - after loads of re-logins, it's on 51%. Slim seems to be what's growing.)

magnum_opus

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Registered: 2005-01-26

Posts: 132

Re: SLIM is growing

what are you using as a DE

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: SLIM is growing

what are you using as a DE

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: SLIM is growing

Now I tried killing slim, logged in and took a "ps aux|grep slim" once, then logged out and in again 20 times and took a new "ps aux|grep slim". Here is the info about slim before and after the 20 logins:

root     22279 20.2  1.6  11560  8280 ?        Ss   14:14   0:03 /usr/bin/slim
root     22279 18.5 15.0  80752 77476 ?        Ss   14:14   0:34 /usr/bin/slim

The one at the top is before... After 20 relogins the ram usage has grown almost 10 times bigger.

lunke

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-05-21

Posts: 86

Re: SLIM is growing

I wonder if this might have something to do with slim's log file. I noticed mine had grown to hefty 864 Mb! And has then set it to /tmp.

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: SLIM is growing

I wonder if this might have something to do with slim's log file. I noticed mine had grown to hefty 864 Mb! And has then set it to /tmp.

Mine was a bit over a hundred megabytes... But even if I re-login plenty of times and then remove the log file, slim continues to grow at every login! And  if I restart X and login with slim, it works at low RAM usage again even if I don't remove the log file... I think I'll just submit a bug...

stavrosg

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From: Rhodes, Greece

Registered: 2005-05-01

Posts: 330

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Re: SLIM is growing

Yep, and about the logfile, too.
Mine got up to 500MB before I noticed it and delete it.
[I do not use a login manager at the time anyway]

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: SLIM is growing

meh, i switched to qingy after too much problems with slim. And now i have some issues with qingy blech, the problems never stop!

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jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: SLIM is growing

my slim log is now 500k big. It's first entry is from March 06.

I'd have to use my box like I used it for the last 2 months for the next 200 monts to become the log 500MB. That'd be 16 years!!

What the hell are you doing???

reverie

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 59

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Re: SLIM is growing

echo "logfile /dev/null" >> /etc/slim.conf

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