On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:43 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> writes: > >> 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). > > No... > > I don't even have a desktop or anything, just basic usage. > > Are gtk themes powerful enough to leak pixmaps? Maybe it's my theme? I don't know for sure, but I'd be surprised if it's your theme. I'm running a pretty heavily loaded down panel including a multiload applet with 6 monitors running, the evolution calendar integration and a slew of other applets that I barely remember adding :), and my pixmap usage for gnome-panel is pretty consistent around 730K. I was just able to get it to jump up to 770K by making the panel background (pseudo) transparent, but that's still a far cry from 80+ MB. I also just tried changing my various theme settings while keeping an eye on xrestop, and gnome-panel never moved above 729K while changing GTK themes, window border themes, or icon themes. And while this was probably a silly thing to do, I just tried using an 11MB PNG as a panel icon, and my gnome-panel usage still stayed at 729K. Not sure where that 11MB went, but it definitely wasn't into gnome-panel's pixmap usage. Hope that helps a little bit. Sorry I don't have any answers for you though. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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