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This didn't used to be a problem for me, but as of late I have been having
the same issue.
On 3/4/02 9:56 PM, "Kim Slawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Mon Mar 04 18:47:00, Eric Peyton wrote:
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>> All,
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>> We are rapidly approaching the next release of Fire. If there are any
>> outstanding problems that you think this release cannot be released
>> without, please let me know ASAP. Input from people running the most
>> recent CVS builds is especially welcome.
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> anyone, feel free to correct me if this has been adressed
> before, but I have a problem that after a period of time (from
> several hours to a day) Fire will consume all available memory.
>
> it seems some component, or components, has a serious memory
> leak. this is with both TOT and the daily builds, by the way.
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> it's serious because it eventually causes swap to become used,
> and on machines with little space for swapfiles, that can lead
> to corruption. well, that and everybody hates memory leaks and
> sluggishness. quitting and restarting fixes it, but it'd be
> nice not to have to do that, and sometimes (when the user is
> away for long periods of time) that's not possible.
>
> output from top:
>
> ... after starting fire
> PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
> 7151 Fire 5.5% 2:31.78 6 137 685 62.8M 37.0M 73.1M 176M
> ... some time later
> 7151 Fire 6.7% 12:58.84 7 140 898 73.4M- 45.7M 86.8M- 200M+
> ... and still later
> 7151 Fire 11.0% 23:27.39 7 140 1243 92.4M+ 71.7M+114M+ 255M+
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> (this example is rather mild, over the period of about two
> hours, though normally it seems to eat memory faster)
>
> the rate of memory usage increase (slope) does seem to
> correspond at least somewhat with activity. though the rate of
> virtual memory usage increase seems to be somewhat linear,
> without as much dependance on user interaction.
>
> watching top now I can see it growing, before my eyes. :-/
>
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> Kim Slawson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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