Jeetu Golani <j_golani@softhome.net> writes: > Hi ppl, > > I'm using Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18,KDE 3.1 on a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 > MB Swap. > > I've noticed that in a few days time or weeks the system slows down i.e screen > refresh takes longer, apps may take longer to launch,etc. > > The apps I typically use are KDevelop,K3B,Kmail,KMerlin,Wine, Konqueror. > > I suspect Wine,Konqueror or some part of KDE 3.1 - maybe artsd or something to > be causing the memory leak. I suspect Konqueror because each time I noticed > the slowdown I had 5 or so instances of Konq running. Wine since it's still > under development. Artsd since in the KDE System Guard I've noticed that > artsd sometimes has a User % value of 35% or so. > > Consequently I'm right now trying not to use Konq or Wine. Basically a trial > and error situation where I try not to use apps which I suspect till I figure > out the one that's causing the error. > > I would however like if there was a better way to detect if an apps leaking > memory. I don't have source codes of many of the apps so I can't run it in a > typical debugger. 'valgrind' should detect memory leaks even if you don't have the source and don't have debugging symbols compiled in. valgrind was written by one of the KDE developers I believe, and all of KDE should have been tested with it already. > I would appreciate any suggestions you guys could gimme about tools for this > purpose or watever.....also anyone else facing similar probs with KDE 3.1?? The classic tools for checking memory usage is 'free' (system-wide) and 'top' (per process), though if you're using KDE, you may find ksysguard more to your liking. -- On a scale of 1 to 10? It sucked.
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