Re: Memory leak
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:58:40 -0800
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
> On Fri Feb 11 09:43:03 2022 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:53:17 -0700
> > Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:01 -0500
> >> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) -
> >>> the memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep
> >>> increasing.
> >>>
> >>> This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid,
> >>> running Xfce4. Typical applications used are Firefox (currently with
> >>> just one extension: uBlock Origin), LibreOffice Writer, Sylpheed,
> >>> Xfce4 Terminal, and Liferea, all from the official repos.
> >>
> >> Firefox left running for days on end is a possible culprit.
> >
> > So I've heard. So is this something I just have to live with? Does
> > everyone have this problem? I actually did used to kill firefox
> > when I was experiencing memory pressure - it certainly relieved
> > the immediate problem, but I think I found that not all the memory
> > used was returned, and when I restarted firefox, the problem of
> > running out of memory often returned before long (i.e., in much
> > less time than after a fresh install).
>
> You can quickly test this by taking Firefox down. If the problem is
> indeed with Firefox (as opposed to Debian), this isn't the place to
> discuss it.
As I mentioned in another post, I do this occasionally, but I'm not
sure how to interpret the results. I just killed firefox; I got back
about 3.5 GB, but the system is still using about 4.8, and Xorg's usage
hasn't changed: ~ 4436M / 3081M / 105M.
Celejar
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