Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-25 Thread riccardo
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 21:31 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01:07PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Btw it's a shame that the python processes are grouped all together. I wonder if we

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-24 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
I did the following as a basic test for memory usage of various python modules. I did the test on my computer, a 32-bit Centrino laptop running ubuntu. Let's start with the following code: import gobject mainloop = gobject.MainLoop() mainloop.run() Cost: 1.2MB of memory (1.2MB

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-24 Thread david
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: I did the following as a basic test for memory usage of various python modules. I did the test on my computer, a 32-bit Centrino laptop running ubuntu. Let's start with the following code: import gobject mainloop =

Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I took,

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found. -- A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache. Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I took,

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Which row are you looking at here? In -/+ buffers/cache I get 130368. This is joyride-2328. That test was using the free value on the first line, which matches MemFree in /proc/meminfo. I chose that because I knew that after

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01:07PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change.

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure if it has been fixed or something weird is going on. Cerebro is enabled in

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread pgf
ton van overbeek wrote: Also idle suspend is enabled again in 2325, while it should be off. i think this was intentional. now that we're building separate release (Subject: New release8.2 build 7nn) and joyride streams, idle suspend was re-enabled in joyride in order to help continue flushing

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: 6.5 Mib according to ps_mem You are right, it's enabled in joyride... it's failing for me because it can't find msh0 (not sure why). Marco I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while this

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Noticed the following: After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free. Booting into 708 with the same set of activities shows 82828k free.

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noticed the following: After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free. Booting into 708 with the same set of

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-22 Thread James Cameron
I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found. -- A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache. Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, run free(1) and note the free column, repeat a few times.

Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-21 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Noticed the following: After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free. Booting into 708 with the same set of activities shows 82828k free. Is there a 'min amount of free memory' release