[7528] in Release_7.7_team

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Concerns about memory leaks on Natty

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Jun 30 19:15:31 2011

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:15:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Paul R Acosta <pra@mit.edu>
cc: "release-team@mit.edu Team" <release-team@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CA32709F.F0A7%pra@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106301913220.3155@tyger.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

Hm. Then I suspect that's been fixed by now. My extrapolation was a bit 
premature -- since 5:45 it's only leaked 20 more kilobytes.

-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Paul R Acosta wrote:

> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> Yes, this was only noticeable when I was logged in for a while, but it was
> faster than 80 MB per day for me.  I don't think I had any indicator-*
> packages installed.  At least I did not install any of them, maybe they
> were already installed.  I would check again, but I threw debian on the
> box.
>
> I agree with your assessment, still leaky but manageable...
> -Paul
>
>
>
>
> On 6/30/11 5:27 PM, "Geoffrey G Thomas" <geofft@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Is this only occuring when you've been logged into your machine for a
>> while? I'm monitoring this on SIPB's Natty box (with zwgc running and
>> subscribed to a few classes) and it looks like we're getting only about
>> 50-60 kB leaked per minute, which comes out to about 80 MB a day. While
>> distasteful, it doesn't seem like it's actually an issue, especially in
>> the cluster environment where users shouldn't be logged in for days at a
>> time.
>>
>> The bug report you linked to, and a few linked from there, implicate
>> indicator-multiload and possibly other indicator-* packages in greatly
>> exacerbating the memory leak. Are you running any of those? Without them,
>> it seems like Unity is still leaky but manageable.
>>
>> --
>> Geoffrey Thomas
>> geofft@mit.edu
>>
>> On Wed, 11 May 2011, 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
>>>
>>>
>
>

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post