> > On June 30, 2016 at 6:50 AM Andrew David Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2016-06-29 19:12, Drew White wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I've just had Qubes Manager go haywire on me. Freezes up because > > it's using 597 MB RAM with 38 MB shared. That's just rhediculous. > > > > I had to kill the process to get out of it. And as usual, it won't > > start again and I have to reboot the system. > > > > I don't see how it could be nearly 600 MB RAM just for one > > application like that. > > > > Just thought I should let you know the issue. If it used less RAM, > > then Dom0 would not require more than 1 GB RAM. But one would give > > it 2GB just to be on the safe side. > > > > If anyone else is having this issue, or knows how to resolve this > > bug, please let me know. I've complained about Qubes Manager not > > starting before, but got no resolution then, so now I'm putting it > > here where it's the issue, not something else that caused it, > > because it's not something else that caused it to be almost 600 MB > > in RAM. > > > > > > Qubes Manager leaks memory, which is a known issue: > > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/860 > > The current workaround is to restart it occasionally. > > Now, if you cannot restart Qubes Manager, then that workaround > obviously will not work for you. However, in order to create an issue > for Qubes Manager not restarting, we need more information. >
I have the problem that the Manager "vanishes" when I switch sessions (i.e. from KDE to i3) and I cannot start it or recently I tried to close and reopen it and it wouldn't reopen. A ps aux in dom0 showed that the process was still running, so killing it let me restart the Manager. Niels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/891482407.6680.1467285327416%40office.mailbox.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
