Re: gnome-panel pixmap usage
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007, Miles Bader wrote:
>> So does anybody have a clue why gnome-panel would be using so much
>> pixmap memory? Does it have known pixmap leaks?
>
> Perhaps one of your applet leaks pixmaps; if you graph it over time,
> or simply compare the values after restarting gnome-panel, you might
> tell for sure whether it's a leak.
I've been watching the value, and it seems to be increasing, but only
slowly (now, for instance, it's 88MB instead of 85MB). This X session
was started about a week ago, so I guess even a slow leak might have
reached 85MB by now...
Do applets in the panel generally share the same (gnome-panel)
process/x-window? I've noticed some applets seem to show up as separate
processes with their own xrestop entry, e.g., I see the following in
xrestop:
1200000 8 30 0 37 17 849K 1K 850K 2889 multiload-applet
1400000 5 27 0 31 15 491K 1K 492K 2891 mixer_applet2
Other than those two, all I have is pretty standard stuff:
* The gnome menu button
* 4 "launcher" icons
* The task list
* The standard clock/date display
Ok -- I just did "killall gnome-panel" and the new gnome-panel seems to
be using much less pixmap memory: now it's using about 3 MB. I'll watch
it for a while, but it's certainly smelling like a leak to me at the
moment....
Thanks,
-Miles
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