Re: gnome-panel pixmap usage
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:19:56PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> 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....
3MB still sounds a lot; according to xrestop, my gnome-panel(s) (one on
top, one at the bottom) uses a bit more than 500k, and that's with
screensaver applet, fast user switch, gnome menu, 5 launchers, system
monitor, desktop switcher, volume applet, weather applet, zeroconf
discovery, clock/date, notification area, window selector, and show
desktop button.
Do you have evolution installed? It might be the evolution<->date/time
coupling that causes the leak (guessing wildly here).
Regards: David
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