Re: help on debugging individual extensions

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Sven Nielsen <post svennielsen de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, there isn't a better way to determine this sort of
>>>> thing other than trying all extensions one by one and seeing which
>>>> ones leak vs. don't leak.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That is unfortunate, indeed, ..really not possible?
>>>
>>> As I said, I am a user, not a developer.
>>>
>>> I will gladly run gnome shell in debug mode and watch memory consumption
>>> of extensions, individual threads, or whatever way there is to
>>> differetiate between shell and extensions, if this is at all possible?
>>
>> There is no differentiation at runtime. Any extension can do whatever
>> it wants to the Shell.
>>
>>> But, I cannot spend weeks disabling and re-enabling individual
>>> extensions and see what memory usage comes up with. I am not in a
>>> testlab, I am using my computer for work.
>>
>> If you have five extensions or so, it shouldn't take too long.
>>
>
> Well, I have 15. Giving that I need 48 hrs continous operation for
> reliable results, that will make it 30 days. no that is not long for a
> user needing actually to do other stuff..
>
> And if the next thing you tell me is not to use so many extensions, I
> will gladly switch to KDE or even better re-install Windows.
>
> Please, you are not helping, instead, you are asking me to do some
> time-consuming thing that I am not even an expert in, although I was the
> one offering to help out, that is counter-productive..

I don't know how I can magically help, here. There aren't any clear
lines between "extension" and "shell", nor on what extension owns
what. Can you list all the extensions you have installed, and let
other people test to see if they can reproduce the same conditions?

> Regards,
> Sven
>
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  Jasper