** Description changed: 1) ouroumov@Box:~/Desktop$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 - 2) ouroumov@Box:~/Desktop$ apt-cache policy mate-panel mate-panel: - Installed: 1.12.2-1 - Candidate: 1.12.2-1 - Version table: - *** 1.12.2-1 500 - 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages - 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status - + Installed: 1.12.2-1 + Candidate: 1.12.2-1 + Version table: + *** 1.12.2-1 500 + 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) mate-panel memory usage should stay about constant 4) mate-panel memory usage increases over time - ------------------- - Steps to reproduce: On a dual screen system running Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 LTS: - - Start Eye Of MATE (eom) image viewer in fullscreen slideshow mode on a folder - with enough pictures that they won't all fit in cache. + - Start Eye Of MATE (eom) image viewer in fullscreen slideshow mode on a + folder with enough pictures that they won't all fit in cache. - If no such folder is available, one can create one using the + If no such folder is available, one can create one using the following commands (will take a while depending on your bandwidth and processing power): - sudo pip install youtube-dl - youtube-dl -f 266 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0 - mkdir frames - mplayer -ss 45 -vo jpeg:outdir=$PWD/frames/ NASA\ _\ Thermonuclear\ Art\ –\ The\ Sun\ In\ Ultra-HD\ \(4K\)-6tmbeLTHC_0.mp4 + sudo pip install youtube-dl + youtube-dl -f 266 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0 + mkdir frames + mplayer -ss 45 -vo jpeg:outdir=$PWD/frames/ NASA\ _\ Thermonuclear\ Art\ –\ The\ Sun\ In\ Ultra-HD\ \(4K\)-6tmbeLTHC_0.mp4 - - This should result in a folder ./frames/ with about 40GB of HD pictures. + This should result in a folder ./frames/ with about 40GB of HD + pictures. - Monitor Memory usage of mate-panel using the command: - top -b -d10 -p pid | grep -E --line-buffered " pid " | tee -a + top -b -d10 -p pid | grep -E --line-buffered " pid " | tee -a out.log - (where pid is the pid of mate-panel) + (where pid is the pid of mate-panel) - - Let it run for a few hours then use the log file to graph the resulting memory - usage data, you should obtain something resembling the graph at the end of this - thread: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/possible-memory-leak-in-mate-panel/7717/15 + - Let it run for a few hours then use the log file to graph the + resulting memory usage data, you should obtain something resembling the + graph at the end of this thread: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t + /possible-memory-leak-in-mate-panel/7717/15 Note: I was also monitoring eom on that graph, to correlate with mate- panel's cpu usage so the graph you obtain won't have so many lines.
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