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Re: Concerns about memory leaks on Natty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed May 11 17:17:54 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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I haven't verified, but apparently Natty dropped some support for broadcom wireless chipsets. Irrelevant for the clusters, but at the same time, the cluster version does drive upgrades, periodically, and I'm not wild about version skew.
-Jon
On May 11, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> This is the issue I alluded to on zephyr today. Paul notes that the issue still occurs with Unity disabled, albeit still running Compiz. I asked about metacity and am waiting to hear back.
>
> -Jon
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Paul R Acosta <pra@MIT.EDU>
>> Date: May 11, 2011 4:13:42 PM EDT
>> To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
>> Cc: Chris Gresham <cgresham@mit.edu>, Patricia Sheppard <pshepp@mit.edu>, Garry P Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Debathena Release
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> I know this is an Ubuntu thing and not a debathena thing but I thought I'd
>> pass it along. In the pipeline meeting this morning I mentioned that I
>> was seeing a memory leak in Ubuntu 11.04 and this spawned a discussion
>> about the release process.
>>
>> I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a system at home that has 1gb ram. I noticed
>> after some time it was swapping memory. Curious, I rebooted and started
>> watching the memory utilization while I used the system. Sure enough, it
>> climbs back up. I searched the web and found others were seeing it.
>>
>> e.g.
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1750000
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/720446
>>
>> Maybe this is just something to watch and see if Ubuntu developers fix it.
>>
>> -Paul
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul R. Acosta
>> Manager - Network Operations
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> 77 Massachusetts Ave, Room W92-190
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>> Phone: (617) 715-2171
>> Email: pra@mit.edu
>
