[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Wilson
Before this was hijacked, this was about the unbounded bo cache in UXA. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2010-04-26 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
This bug report has been inactive for quite some time and in the meantime Ubuntu has moved along. I hope the reported problem has been resolved in the current version of Ubuntu. If it has not and there are people willing to follow up with information collecting and testing, it is best to file a

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-08-26 Thread STaRMaN
I'm having this problem too, with Kubuntu Jaunty , last updates until today, ppa included. My graphic card is intel gma x3100 (chipset GM965). At first, i think the problemas was with some plasmoid, but, today, i disabled all, and the problem continues. I disabled fsrunner (addon for krunner).

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-08-13 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Tags added: kubuntu ** Tags added: jaunty -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-08-01 Thread Peter Hoeg
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = In Progress -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-08-01 Thread Peter Hoeg
I am running jaunty with nvidia graphics and am also seeing excessive (realising that top doesn't report shared memory properly) memory usage. This machine has been up for a number of days and here is the output of top PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 24707 local

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-07-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
[This is an automatic notification.] A new major version of the -intel driver is now available in Karmic. This version includes a major reworking of the acceleration architecture, which resolves a huge number of issues. We do not know whether it resolves the issue you reported. Would you mind

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-22 Thread Kieran Hogg
Despite improving performance, the memory problems seems to remain. -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-16 Thread Jonathan Thomas
** Package changed: kde4base (Ubuntu) = xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-12 Thread wolfie2x
Here's what solved the swap growth issue for me: (Not sure if its related but might help someone). I had sluggish performance with intel graphics, so I followed this guide and switched to UXA from EXA. That's when I noticed the swap growth but didn't think they were related at all.

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-12 Thread hronir
I'have an intel graphics too: same issues of wolfie2x concerning UXA/EXA. But I can't do without compiz, so I reverted Xorg intel driver to 2.4 following this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4 Now compiz actually works much like with UXA. And now I

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-12 Thread Musthafa Meeran
I think this problem has something to do with the xorg intel drivers only. I don't have these issues now, after reverting to older intel 2.4 driver and with the MTRR fix. BTW, I am currently using Ubuntu 9.04 with gnome desktop. -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-12 Thread Kieran Hogg
Downgrading to the intel 2.4 driver has appeared to solve this issues for me. -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-11 Thread Tarrok
Yeah man!!! firefox-3.0-gnome-support already installed, but on my Gnome-Ubuntu-Jaunty my swap still running high, with firefox. Maybe could be another problem without solution!!! A Bug, who knows!! i m tired this, all day i need to restart system cause the swap is consuming 80-90% with no apps

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-05 Thread wolfie2x
I have the same problem on Ubuntu 9.04. Apps I run: Firefox, Thunderbird, Kdevelop, VirtualBox. The same apps on Intrepid never caused the swap to be used on my 1GB laptop. Jaunty starts to fill up half of my 1GB swap while only 50% of RAM is used. System becomes extremely sluggish. After using

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-06-05 Thread John Vivirito
Not sure what KDE package this should be on but since it is only related to KDE but not all the same app. does anyone have firefox-3.0-gnome-support package installed? If not please install it and see if it helps at all. Yes it can be used on KDE atleast until Mozilla starts supporting QT maybe

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-18 Thread dtr
I too have noticed that swap memory was being used when I still had lots of ram free, I'm running Kubuntu 9.04 and I have 2GB of ram, not sure how it acts with people with on 1 gig or less or ram, anyway last night I found an article on Novel website Staying on Top of Your Memory Usage in Linux ,

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-18 Thread John Vivirito
This seems to be more of a gtk app on KDE not working properly not just firefox -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-14 Thread uvaio
HI, I have exactly the same problem on kubuntu 9.04. I've never got something like that in previous versions. 2Gigs of memory are eat up like nothing by just running standard programs are always used to (FF, thunderbird, skype, pidgin or kopete). I have no idea what echoing 1 2 3 to drop caches

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-14 Thread Gene
Same problem on Kubuntu 9.04. After about 1/2 hour of use, everything bogs down. Yesterday I downloaded a 5 mb PDF file. Upon opening with Okular, my computer became unusable, and I had to reboot. Gnome desktop seems to work perfectly. Also, I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 / KDE 4.2 via update

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-14 Thread Ernesto Gutierrez
Just want to add my 2 cents on the matter. I have only 1 gig of memory. Ubuntu Intrepid upon boot was always between 300 - 400 mb. Whereas kubuntu jaunty (fresh install) starts up at around 750 megs. Thats almost double the space of my prior ubuntu install. -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-13 Thread Frank Zimmerman
I just noticed a similar problem. I just upgraded this computer (2 gb RAM) to Jaunty last night (but I installed Ubuntu, not Kubuntu). Now, after about 6 hours of use my System Monitor shows 38% memory in use by programs and 61% in use as cache. We also have Ubuntu 9.04 on a Netbook with 1.5gb

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-13 Thread Frank Zimmerman
One more note: I was able to get rid of the excessive cache ram by issuing the following commands from terminal: sudo su echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches echo 2 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches That doesn't solve the problem, but at least keeps the system going a little

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-10 Thread hronir
I see the problem also without Firefox. And the problem seems not to be related to a heavy RAM usage: it start swappin even with far less than a GB of MEM used (on a 2GB RAM machine). Maybe the problem is related to the management of cached memory: I'll try to better understand if this is the

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Sack
so is firefox the problem or not? Remember that even 2.2GB mem is finite, so using lots of applications might hit that barrier at some point. -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-04 Thread Kieran Hogg
I can't speak for anyone else but I don't see the behaviour either under gnome, or under kde without firefox running. I did see someone mention that it may be related to the gtk-qt-curve (or whatever it's called) theme used under kde but that doesn't seem too likely. -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-03 Thread hronir
I'm experiencing such a problem too. It seems to me that Firefox ask for swap pages once in a while and quite soon, after a few dozen of minutes of a normal usage, the whole of my 4GB of swap disk is filled. Moreover, since firefox write down several tens of MB each time, there are frequently

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-03 Thread hronir
Restarting Firefox doesn't help: it doesn't free swap space and keeps growing... -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-03 Thread hronir
It's not a problem of Firefox: any other application freeze the system once in a while eating several dozen of MB of swap space. Reducing /proc/sys/vm/swappiness doesn't help too. My current workaround is just to unmount the swap partition at all and restart my kubuntu box. Cheers. -- Kubuntu

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-05-03 Thread hronir
Even without swap partition mounted the system crashed. Coming back with atop, it turns out that it was willing to write to a swap partition anyway (and I guess it crashed because there is no partition available just like it was crashing when the partition was there but it was full). This (*)

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Johnson
I have also seen this issue. It seems to be Firefox on my machine also. I thought it was just my system, but I recently upgraded to 4GB of RAM and still am using swap with only a few programs running (Konsole, Firefox, KVirc): $ free -m total used free shared

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-04-05 Thread Kieran Hogg
I have to say I'm seeing a similar issue. I'm not sure if it's just under Kubuntu as I don't have ubuntu-desktop installed, but I've noticed a definite performance hit. I frequently find firefox taking up large amounts of memory, and less frequently, CPU. -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-04-02 Thread John Vivirito
The first screenshot does not show Firefox at all. Is there a reason for this or are they 2 separate issues. there is a bug on both we need to find out what one it is. I'm away from home all day today and tomorrow, I dont have access to my system with the bugs on it so i cant give report numbers

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-04-02 Thread Musthafa Meeran
The first screenshot was to show the memory usage, immediately after reboot/login, without opening any applications. So, this probably looks like two separate issues. Please let me know what other information is needed to investigate, and I ll provide them as soon as I can. Thanks a lot.. --

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-04-01 Thread Jonathan Thomas
Looks like Firefox is using a ton of memory. ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: kdebase-workspace = firefox-3.0 -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-03-26 Thread Jonathan Thomas
Is there any application in particular that uses a lot? The apps I can see in top all look normal. ** Changed in: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this bug notification

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-03-26 Thread Musthafa Meeran
Unless I restart every day, I find the system very sluggish in terms of performance. Looks like some memory leak or something, but I don't know how to find out what applications are causing the same. Currently I have only firefox/dolphin/konsole/kate opened, but the usage shows that the entire 2

[Bug 343714] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage

2009-03-16 Thread Musthafa Meeran
** Attachment added: top_login.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23925532/top_login.png ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23925533/Dependencies.txt -- Kubuntu Jaunty KDE 4.2 very high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343714 You received this