Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: unity
After a really short uptime, when I am logged in my Natty box, under
Unity, compiz start using A LOT of memory, up to a point that my system
has to swap... it was never like this in previous Ubuntu versions, and
not even on Beta2 of Natty.
It seems to me it has started in a recent upgrade (after the Natty
release)
Historically (using since 8.04 on this machine) it has never passed over
5%, even when I was logged on for over a month.
Today, I already had to reboot twice, cause it was impacting performance
of many softwares (I guess due to increased IO), specially VMWarePlayer
(3.1.4) and VirtualBox-ose (up to date with repositories). I have not
noticed much of an impact in Apache2 or MySQL for now.
My uptime is only two days and I had to end the session (logout) some
twelve times since the boot... My current session is less than 25
minutes old and it already shows the compiz process (with Unity) using
8.8% of my RAM (of the 3.7G available) and pretty soon it will reach
above 20% (as the last time I had to logout, and the impacts were kind
of mitigated) and up to 45% (the worst case I have noticed looking at
free -m and/or htop since my last dist-upgrade, when not even logging
out seemed to improve my situation)
I am not sure if it could be cause by some other package (or combination
of packages I have installed), or some of the running applications (most
of them, everyday tools I had for several releases), or some indicators
I had manually set to run from the repository, PPA and third part
(ubuntuone-indicator, weather-indicator, dropbox, caffeine, sysmonitor-
indicator, cpufreq-indicator), but I am not sure how the would consume
memory under the compiz process instead of theirs.
Are there any log files I can post, tests I can try, to help understand
this odd behavior?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 173.14.30 Sat Apr 16 21:49:29
PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 8ffa75e1b233799807120f5ed7003ee9
CheckboxSystem: cc699a849d78f423c8e1f0dfc5139850
CompizPlugins:
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,grid,compiztoolbox,imgpng,move,gnomecompat,snap,vpswitch,unitymtgrabhandles,regex,place,resize,mousepoll,animation,session,expo,wall,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sun May 8 11:44:10 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-9-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-173, 173.14.30, 2.6.38-9-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.38-9-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] [10de:03d0] (rev a2)
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:0efe]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InstallationMedia___: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled,
Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary,
Disabled, Not in use)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-9-generic
root=UUID=8f62c35a-8ea7-474b-9f69-9569a0b3933c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
ProcVersionSignature___: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgConf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
dmi.bios.date: 09/30/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: P01
dmi.board.name: M61PMV
dmi.board.version: FAB 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Unknow
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrP01:bd09/30/2008:svn:pnM61PMV:pvrFAB1.0:rvn:rnM61PMV:rvrFAB1.0:cvn:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: M61PMV
dmi.product.version: FAB 1.0
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental
7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug compiz-0.9 natty regression-update running-unity
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