Re: gnome-shell got memory leaks ?

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

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:20 AM, 邓尧 <torshie gmail com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Bijan Binaee <bijanbina gmail com>
>> wrote:
>> > i run gnome shell in valgrind and it show that gnome-shell have about
>> > 3500
>> > memory error!!!
>> > and leak about 10 MB!!!
>> > also i note that i just ran it and i haven’t opened any window and close
>> > it
>> > and maybe if i do that you see a lot more problem
>> >
>> > here is valgrind log:http://paste.kde.org/504602/
>> > also because my gnome-shell is not compiled with debug flag backtrace is
>> > not
>> > available perfectly
>>
>> Yes. We need debug symbols.
>>
>> You need to run with --leak-check=full. Also, G_SLICE=always-malloc and
>> G_DEBUG.
>>
>> See http://live.gnome.org/Valgrind
>>
>> Also, using a suppressions file like the one provided with Clutter is
>> always a good idea.
>>
> I also tried gnome-shell under valgrind. gnome-shell was started with
> "valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --log-file=gnome-shell.log
> gnome-shell --replace", then stopped with command "gnome-shell --replace".
> The valgrind log can be downloaded here:
> http://www.xiahaiqu.com/gnome-shell.log.gz
> According to the valgrind log, both nvidia driver (/usr/lib/libGL.so) and
> gnome-shell got leaks. Not all debug symbol files are installed, if more
> debug symbols are need, let me know.
>
> btw, when starting gnome-shell I got the following console error message,
> not sure whether it's important or not.
> (gnome-shell:7493): folks-WARNING **: Failed to find primary PersonaStore
> with type ID 'eds' and ID 'system'.
> Individuals will not be linked properly and creating new links between
> Personas will not work.
> The configured primary PersonaStore's backend may not be installed. If you
> are unsure, check with your distribution.
>
> Thanks
> Yao
>

It does not seem like you set the correct environment variables, as I
can still see random things caused by valgrind not understanding the
slab allocator. Additionally, please try and use a suppressions file.
I recommend the one in Clutter's tree:

    http://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/plain/tests/data/clutter-1.0.suppressions

-- 
  Jasper