Re: Extreme memory usage for gnome-panel related apps

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le samedi 01 décembre 2007, à 03:12 +0000, Brian Nitz a écrit :
> I'll spare the details of the Anonymous memory used by all libraries in 
> gnome-panel's address space, but notice that restarting gnome-panel 
> reduced the heap from over 15M to about 2M when I restarted 
> gnome-panel.  Occasionally I see halting behaviour in gnome-panel menus 
> which may be caused by paging activity.   Did anything recently change 
> in gnome-panel's memory management?

No, I don't think so.

> When was gslice introduced?

In glib 2.9/2.10. glib 2.10.0 was released in February 2006.

> How can I disable it?   Gslice might not be necessary on Solaris since 
> running with a slab allocator is as simple as setting LD_PRELOAD to 
> libumem.so.

G_SLICE=always-malloc

Keep us informed if you look at this in more details!

Vincent

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