Public bug reported: I'm concerned with how much memory is used in my Ubuntu 12.04 system on Toshiba AC100 because there is little RAM.
Epiphany works quite fast on my system, but I have noticed that a lot of memory was consumed after I left Gmail open in Epiphany over a night. Perhaps, there is a memory leak? So, I made an observation over Epiphany's memory consumption (with a simple script that printed how much memory the processes consume every 5 minutes -- https://gitorious.org/ps-memstat/ps- memstat/blobs/epiphany/ac100-second-longer/ps-memstat or http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~imz/epiphany-browser/ps-memstat- data/view/head:/ps-memstat -- it runs "ps"): after Epiphany launched, I opened Gmail in it (the main page, with the index of my messages) and didn't touch it for about a day. The data of my observations are saved in https://gitorious.org/ps- memstat/ps-memstat/blobs/epiphany/ac100-second-longer/ps-memstat- epiphany.out . (They also should be visible in https://code.launchpad.net/~imz/epiphany-browser/ps-memstat-data , but, unfortunately, the import of this non-HEAD branch into Launchpad didn't work correctly -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1000852 ). In the beginning, the state was like this (it's the output of "ps --sort -vsize -o comm,vsize,size,rss"): Mon Jul 30 16:19:50 VLAT 2012 COMMAND VSZ SIZE RSS epiphany-browse 21476 224 568 bash 6248 2496 3748 ps-memstat 3680 244 1092 ps 1872 632 668 head 1388 296 416 Mon Jul 30 16:24:50 VLAT 2012 COMMAND VSZ SIZE RSS epiphany-browse 323568 243108 51116 bash 6248 2496 80 ps-memstat 3680 244 404 tail 2980 300 156 ps 1872 632 668 head 1388 296 416 In the end: Wed Aug 1 14:00:27 VLAT 2012 COMMAND VSZ SIZE RSS epiphany-browse 381232 300772 55976 bash 6248 2496 0 ps-memstat 3728 292 380 tail 2980 300 96 ps 1872 632 672 head 1388 296 416 So, the consumed virtual memory increased by 60Mb or so. More info: disk cache is disabled in my Epiphany (not to cause load on my flash harddrive). I'd also like to give up swap, but that's not realistic yet to run programs without swap, because they tend to consume more and more memory (like in the reported case of Epiphany). I also have a feeling that the Midori process similarly grows constantly in size if it is left with Gmail opened for a while (a night). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: epiphany-browser 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 3.0.27-1-ac100 armv7l ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11 Architecture: armhf Date: Mon Aug 27 16:52:19 2012 SourcePackage: epiphany-browser UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: epiphany-browser Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: 12.04 ac100 apport-bug arm armhf gmail leak memory memory-consumption memory-leak precise toshiba-ac100 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042075 Title: the longer epiphany works the more memory it consumes (a memory leak?) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/epiphany-browser/+bug/1042075/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
