Re: [orca-list] Orca/pidgin slowdown

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Garrett:

It seems like there might be a memory leak somewhere.  Try running the 
following command a few times over several hours to see if pidgin is 
growing:

 ps -efo args,rss,vsz | grep pidgin

Will

Garrett Klein wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've noticed that orca becomes very sluggish in Pidgin after a few days
> of steady usage. Control-tabbing is slow, flat review is slow, and even
> Orca's reading of new messages is slow. Quitting and restarting Orca
> doesn't fix the problem, but qutting/restarting Pidgin makes things
> snappy again. Also, the responsiveness/speed of other applications are
> not affected.
>
> System specs: 3.0 GHz dual-core, 4 GB ram, Arch Linux 2009, pidgin
> 2.5.5, and orca/atk/at-spi from git running on gnome 2.26.2.
>
> Garrett
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