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Re: memory leak

 

Hi Steve

top - 16:08:54 up 35 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.07, 0.71, 0.45
Tasks: 114 total,   1 running, 113 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  9.3%us,  2.0%sy,  0.3%ni, 87.4%id,  0.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,
 0.0%st
Mem:   1016908k total,   559736k used,   457172k free,    19948k buffers

top - 20:40:50 up  5:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.38, 0.52, 0.60
Tasks: 118 total,   1 running, 117 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.3%ni, 98.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
 0.0%st
Mem:   1016908k total,   845600k used,   171308k free,    47212k buffers

I'm running Chromium and pidgin only, on a 'clean' Beta2 install (I have
LAMP on my other one and wanted to remove that from the possible cause).

I'm rather stuck :-(

Regards,

Phill.


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:22:42 +0100, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>  hi Steve,
>>
>> you will have read 'war and peace' which is why I missed you on IRC.
>> Addons... Hmmm,
>>
>> 1) Full LAMP Server aka 'main' Ubuntu - Updated as per updates by them; be
>> very surprised if it were that, else all hell would break out but I'm sure
>> the leak was here before that.
>>
>> 2) Chromium daily ppa - There WAS a memory leak but it was fixed ages ago
>> -
>> that's why I changed to daily ppa a few weeks back.
>>
>> 3) All the stuff that pcman had me install to be able to compile pcmanfm
>> from source with debug on
>>
>> I use pidjin for my Im/IRC stuff, bog-standard no additional stuff on that
>> one as they can cause problems. I found xChat to be very memory hungry,
>> and
>> need IM as well as IRC
>>
>> If you know of no-one seeing it, I'll put the beta2 onto a 'clean'
>> partition
>> & see how it runs, the leak has always been very evident within a few
>> hours.
>>
>>  No sign of a memory leak here at the moment on beta 2..
>
>
>
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> Steve (Yorvyk)
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