Re: gnome-shell got memory leaks ?

[Clemens <clemens lab21 org>]

Am Mo 18 Jun 2012 12:19:43 CEST schrieb Adam Tauno Williams:
> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:23 +0200, Clemens wrote:
> > Am So 17 Jun 2012 18:17:09 CEST schrieb Jasper St. Pierre:
> > > Can you just try using nouveau for a day or two to tell if it's the
> > > driver's fault or not?
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:50 AM, 邓尧<torshie gmail com>   wrote:
> > > > > > After using for about two hours, its memory consumption grows up to
> > > > > > more than 2.5G, and keeps growing! Smells like memory leaks :-(
> > > > > > I'm using nvidia 295.40 driver.
> > > > > > Anyone how to fix this ?
> > > > > You should try the Nouveau driver, as NVidia is probably the culprit.
> > > > > Other than that, you should report a bug to NVidia, but don't expect a
> > > > > fast answer.
> > > > I wish I could, but I need nvidia binary driver to develop opencl programs.
> > > > If nvidia driver really leaks, probably I will go for the classic gnome or
> > > > unity.
> > > > I really love gnome-shell, it could speedup my developing a lot.
> > I have the same setup (12.04 64Bit, gnome-shell 3.4.1, nvidia-currnet
> > 295.40 + nvidia-currnet-updates 295.49)
> > top says about gnome-shell
> >     Virt : 1273m
> >     Res: 140m
> >     shr: 47
> > I created some new windows, dis/enable extension, reload the shell,
> > .... the memory doesn't really change (less then +/-10mb)
>
> You'll never [or very rarely] see the number go down; LINUX memory
> management doesn't work that way.  I'd say these numbers aren't too bad
> - the one that really counts ( "RSS" - resident ) is pretty low.  But it
> does seem like gnome-shell's virtual footprint grows considerably;
> mostly this look to be memory allocated for data [ "VmData" ].
>
> Note that I have several extensions enabled which may drive up the
> numbers.
>
> [my gnome-shell process is PID#2656]
>
> awilliam@workstation:~>  cat /proc/2656/status | grep -i ^vm
> VmPeak:	 2,324,716 kB
> VmSize:	 2,248,372 kB
> VmLck:	         0 kB
> VmHWM: 	   707,884 kB
> VmRSS: 	   639,676 kB
> VmData:	 1,613,232 kB
> VmStk:	       156 kB
> VmExe:	        16 kB
> VmLib:	    54,936 kB
> VmPTE:	     1,088 kB
> VmSwap:	         0 kB
>
> gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-2.11.1.x86_64
> Linux workstation.wmmi.net 3.1.10-1.9-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 5
> 18:48:38 UTC 2012 (4a97ec8) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
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maybe my previous mail didn't make that clear. I think the mem usage is 
totally ok. Just
wanted to say that i have no problem with 3.4.1 and the 290.xx nvidia 
driver.