Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:09:16PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to justify for such an application. Sure, but my point was it's not a leak. Being memory inefficient is one thing. Leaking memory is where, over time, it takes

OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
Hi all, just want to share my bad experience with Gnome3 in testing. They have/had some mem-leaks in there. viskup@viskup:~$ uptime 11:10:57 up 16 days, 17:01, 10 users, load average: 1.61, 1.34, 1.07 viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak:

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:28:51AM +0100, Peter Viskup wrote: Hi all, just want to share my bad experience with Gnome3 in testing. They have/had some mem-leaks in there. viskup@viskup:~$ uptime 11:10:57 up 16 days, 17:01, 10 users, load average: 1.61, 1.34, 1.07 I'm not sure what this is

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak: 3537456 kB VmSize: 3403068 kB That doesn't show a memory leak. Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to justify for such an application. awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/'

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
On 02/08/2013 06:09 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak: 3537456 kB VmSize: 3403068 kB That doesn't show a memory leak. Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to justify for such an

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
On 02/08/2013 03:12 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:28:51AM +0100, Peter Viskup wrote: viskup@viskup:~$ uptime 11:10:57 up 16 days, 17:01, 10 users, load average: 1.61, 1.34, 1.07 I'm not sure what this is supposed to demonstrate. Has gnome-shell been running for 16 days?

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Peter Viskup: viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak: 3537456 kB VmSize: 3403068 kB I am not sure, but I suspect you misinterpret those numbers. This is the amount of memory that the application thinks is available for itself. This does

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
On 02/08/2013 10:44 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Peter Viskup: viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak: 3537456 kB VmSize: 3403068 kB I am not sure, but I suspect you misinterpret those numbers. This is the amount of memory that the application