Bug#367986: Acknowledgement (sylpheed-gtk1: ..moving mail between folders within Sg1-1.0.6, crashes X.)

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:11:09 -0700, Steve wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20060525031109.GA32439@mauritius.dodds.net>:

> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:17:02AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > > Well, if xrestop doesn't show any unusual memory usage, how
> > > > about just 'top'?
> 
> > > ..aye, did that too, and it showed xrestop loading up.  Running
> > > sylpheed-gtk1 remotely,  I see no problems and even up 18fps in 
> > > a Flightgear session at 1600x1200x24bpp on a 2048x1536x24bpp
> > > KDE-3.5.2-2 on this 7yr old amd k6-2 450MHz rig, ok 1.5 yr old 
> > > ATI 9250 clone, RV280|5960 chip, on a X-7.0.0 radeon driver.
> 
> > ..and remembering I had left  in running, I now see 12.6% memory 
> > usage by Sylpheed-gtk1, thats off 384MB ram and 1.5GB swap:
> 
> ... which is quite impressive, considering that the X server itself is
> only using 2% of memory.  But evidently, this syplheed process was
> running for quite some time, so this doesn't seem to be an issue of a

..I usually just lock the screens rather than log out or shut down
anything, so maybe I'm spoilt by the reliability.  :o)

> gradual memory leak -- if there is any memory leaking here, it's quite
> sudden and only when moving mail as you said.

..aye, and it's completely at random and in a blink, is why capturing
the errors would have been nice.

> > > ..could it be a font thing?  These crashes started after the font
> > > I had set up for Sylpheed-gtk1, disappeared off this box,
> > > everything else works like it should, AFAICT.
> 
> Uh, it could be tied somehow to the fonts, but I don't see any way to
> debug it on that basis alone as I can't imagine any way that would
> cause an X server to crash *or* cause an app to chew up memory.

..locales or encodings?  I like to use utf-8 fonts.

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