On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:19:56PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007, Miles Bader wrote: > >> So does anybody have a clue why gnome-panel would be using so much > >> pixmap memory? Does it have known pixmap leaks? > > > > Perhaps one of your applet leaks pixmaps; if you graph it over time, > > or simply compare the values after restarting gnome-panel, you might > > tell for sure whether it's a leak. > > I've been watching the value, and it seems to be increasing, but only > slowly (now, for instance, it's 88MB instead of 85MB). This X session > was started about a week ago, so I guess even a slow leak might have > reached 85MB by now... > > Do applets in the panel generally share the same (gnome-panel) > process/x-window? I've noticed some applets seem to show up as separate > processes with their own xrestop entry, e.g., I see the following in > xrestop: > > 1200000 8 30 0 37 17 849K 1K 850K 2889 > multiload-applet > 1400000 5 27 0 31 15 491K 1K 492K 2891 > mixer_applet2 > > Other than those two, all I have is pretty standard stuff: > > * The gnome menu button > * 4 "launcher" icons > * The task list > * The standard clock/date display > > Ok -- I just did "killall gnome-panel" and the new gnome-panel seems to > be using much less pixmap memory: now it's using about 3 MB. I'll watch > it for a while, but it's certainly smelling like a leak to me at the > moment....
3MB still sounds a lot; according to xrestop, my gnome-panel(s) (one on top, one at the bottom) uses a bit more than 500k, and that's with screensaver applet, fast user switch, gnome menu, 5 launchers, system monitor, desktop switcher, volume applet, weather applet, zeroconf discovery, clock/date, notification area, window selector, and show desktop button. Do you have evolution installed? It might be the evolution<->date/time coupling that causes the leak (guessing wildly here). Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
