Hi, I wrote a while back about an apparent memory leak while running Enlightenment, but only have time to look into it every few weeks. Here is something I've found...
The run-away memory usage only occurs while xscreensaver is running, and then not every time. I figured it might have to do with specific modes of the screensaver (i have it set to cycle through them randomly). A few quick tests found one that reliably causes memory usage to spike, "zoom", the last hack (in xscreensaver parlance) in the list for the random selections. These "hacks" can also be run manually without the xscreensaver executable, and i was able to verify that "zoom" run by itself in a window very quickly caused the memory problem. I had to switch to a text virtual terminal to kill the process. Even after this, "ps" shows that enlightenment continues to use over 40% of my system's memory. I can kind of see why the memory usage of a badly behaving program (or is it my video driver?) would show up as being used by enlightenment instead -- enlightenment has to actually display the pretty graphics on the screen. But why, after the process has been killed, is this memory not freed? And is there perhaps a compile option for E (or xscreensaver, for that matter) that would prevent all of this in the first place? Side note: "enlightenment_remote -restart" does free up the memory, but often this times out before the restart occurs. Also, the restart triggers the not-remembering-size-or-location problem with the clock module, a separate issue that has persisted into e20. Thanks, -Conrad. -- Whenever and wherever you want. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
