Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-13 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Gordon Messmer wrote: To debug the clock applet, first you'd have to kill it, and then start it under valgrind: valgrind -v --log-file=/var/tmp/clock-applet.log clock-applet you probably want to add --leak-check=full ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/08/2013 05:25 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: Then I fell over: https://blogs.oracle.com/bnitz/entry/thanks_for_the_memories https://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction which seems to imply that the shared libraries of all stuff used by Gnome gets measured in one of the gnome programs, frequently

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2013-01-09 19:41, fred smith wrote: here's the (I think) equivalent blocks from my system: 08048000-0805b000 r-xp fd:00 4685290/usr/libexec/clock-applet Size:76 kB Rss: 68 kB Shared_Clean: 0 kB Shared_Dirty: 0 kB

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: That would then verify the claim that the leak is not real (the above shows the contrary, I think), and gnome programs interact with each other in much more deeper ways than you would expect. I sort-of

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-10 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:10:43AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: That would then verify the claim that the leak is not real (the above shows the contrary, I think), and gnome programs interact with each other

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2013-01-10 15:10, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: That would then verify the claim that the leak is not real (the above shows the contrary, I think), and gnome programs interact with each other in much more deeper

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: I do have the Lightning plugin in Thunderbird, just to be able to read nice formatted invites to meetings etc. And that thing marks items in my calendar. If you have notifications set, does the clock-applet pop

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2013-01-10 19:13, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: I do have the Lightning plugin in Thunderbird, just to be able to read nice formatted invites to meetings etc. And that thing marks items in my calendar. If you

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread ken
On 01/08/2013 08:25 AM Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2013-01-06 23:18, fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:31:55AM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/08/2013 08:25 AM Paul Bijnens wrote: My thanks to Ken, Paul, and all the others who have replied to this thread. I haven't had time to dig into it over the last couple of days, but once I have worked thru all your suggestions I'll try to

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
I'm still not really out of the problem either: On 2013-01-09 14:21, fred smith wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 11159 fredex16 0 263m 149m 10m S 0.3 3.8 1:36.87 clock-applet 263m VIRT: We understand that virtual memory is sum of

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: I'm still not really out of the problem either: On 2013-01-09 14:21, fred smith wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 11159 fredex16 0 263m 149m 10m S 0.3 3.8 1:36.87

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: On 2013-01-09 14:21, fred smith wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 11159 fredex16 0 263m 149m 10m S 0.3 3.8 1:36.87 clock-applet 149m RES: The parts

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: On 2013-01-09 14:21, fred smith wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 11159 fredex16 0 263m 149m 10m S 0.3 3.8 1:36.87 clock-applet

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:16 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Think in terms of dollars instead of Mbytes here and it will make more sense that nobody cares anymore. You ain't got no sense o' history or wonder, Les. Oh, the days of wooden computers and iron programmers... I've been there, done

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2013-01-09 16:50, fred smith wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Inspecting /proc/PID/smaps of such a large process may reveal something? well, there's a LOT of stuff dumped when one cats the file. but I have no adequate expertise to figure out what it

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-09 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:07:15PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2013-01-09 16:50, fred smith wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Inspecting /proc/PID/smaps of such a large process may reveal something? well, there's a LOT of stuff dumped when one cats

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2013-01-06 23:18, fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet consumes the following:

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-08 Thread John Doe
Maybe try valgrind... But after testing it on a few basic utilities like ls, find xclock, it seems that many of them do have leaks... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-08 Thread m . roth
John Doe wrote: Maybe try valgrind... But after testing it on a few basic utilities like ls, find xclock, it seems that many of them do have leaks... More reason to dislike gnome mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.01.2013 um 16:19 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: John Doe wrote: Maybe try valgrind... But after testing it on a few basic utilities like ls, find xclock, it seems that many of them do have leaks... More reason to dislike gnome mark confirmation bias - you only see what you

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-08 Thread m . roth
Leon Fauster wrote: Am 08.01.2013 um 16:19 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: John Doe wrote: Maybe try valgrind... But after testing it on a few basic utilities like ls, find xclock, it seems that many of them do have leaks... More reason to dislike gnome confirmation bias - you only see

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread ken
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:23:20PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread m . roth
ken wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:23:20PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread m . roth
ken wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:23:20PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:23:20PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread m . roth
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:23:20PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:10 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: and I believe prelink does this sort of thing. Would change the md5sum of the package? prelink does change the md5sum. One needs to unprelink (use the -u flag) before comparing the hash value. Akemi

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/07/2013 08:14 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: prelink does change the md5sum. One needs to unprelink (use the -u flag) before comparing the hash value. Indeed. The prelink binary has --md5 and --sha flags to print the hash of the binary without prelink's data, and should be used in this case.

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/06/2013 06:32 PM, fred smith wrote: yes, it's on. there's a log in /var/log/prelink from just yesterday morning. wouldn't ya think that if prelink has modified it, that the rpm -V would have flagged a modified checksum? Or is prelink smart enuff to tweak the RPM database? I have no

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-06 Thread ken
Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet consumes the following: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 4133 me 15 0 29568 3748 2944 S 0.0 0.2 190:51.33 clock-applet My uptime at the moment is coming on 68 days. Over time the %CPU

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-06 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet consumes the following: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 4133 me 15 0 29568 3748 2944 S 0.0 0.2 190:51.33 clock-applet My

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-06 Thread ken
On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet consumes the following: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 4133 me 15 0 29568 3748 2944 S

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-06 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/07/2013 11:18 AM, fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet consumes the following: PID

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-06 Thread ken
On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but with just 2G of RAM, clock-applet consumes the following:

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-06 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:23:20PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 05:18 PM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:43:09PM -0500, ken wrote: On 01/06/2013 09:55 AM fred smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 06:33:07AM -0500, ken wrote: Fred, Also running an up-to-date 5.8 but

[CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-04 Thread fred smith
I've discovered recently that something on my Centos 5.8 box (up to date) is hogging a ton of RAM. so a little while ago I sat and watched top for a while. it showed (sorry, I didn't take screen shots or write this down, so the numbers are a bit rough) that out of 8 gigs of swap, around 2 1/2 was