RE: Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze

[Aurélien Campéas <aurelien.campeas@uni.lu>]

Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 08:08 -0500, Patrick Kirchner a écrit :
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aurélien Campéas [mailto:aurelien.campeas@uni.lu] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:53 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze
> > Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 01:22 +0800, Emile Kroeger a écrit :
> > > (oops, accidental single-user reply ... damn gmail !)
> > > > Looks like inkscape leaks memory too fast ... then your 
> > > > (your machine becomes slower), and when filled you get 
> > > > memory) situation, and your poor kernel tries hard to 
> > > > When inkscape is killed, gnome still has to come out of 
> > > > by pieces ...
> > > > > What I've been doing is a) avoiding inkscape
> > > > especially when there is sodipodi available ...
> 
> Just my $0.02 here, Inkscape causes my machine to lockup
> as well.  I just assumed it was somoe sort of problem
> my computer hardware at first but it only happens in Inkscape.

What usage pattern for people that experience the lockups ?

I launched inkscape just to see.

It went from 77 to ~ 350 Mb ram consumption, the time to open and browse
the content-rich tutorials.

However I note that even when keeping  and playing in a mostly empty
workspace after I closed the tutorials, most of the mem was not
released.

This looks deeply wrong to me ...


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