[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#734526: Bug#734526: lightdm-gtk-greeter: leaking memory
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:49:48PM +0100, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter
> Version: 1.6.1-4
> Severity: normal
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 27352 0.2 0.8 143040 36104 tty7 Ss+ 17:25 0:22 /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
> lightdm 27370 0.4 0.6 401064 26404 ? Ssl 17:25 0:45 /usr/sbin/lightdm-gtk-greeter
>
> An hour later...
>
> root 27352 0.2 0.9 145452 38476 tty7 Ss+ 17:25 0:30 /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
> lightdm 27370 0.4 0.6 402252 27460 ? Ssl 17:25 1:01 /usr/sbin/lightdm-gtk-greeter
>
> That's about +1MB RSS per hour for lightdm-gtk-greeter, and about +2MB RSS per
> hour for X. Last time I went on a 2 week vacation, when I returned greeter had
> half a gig RSS. Forgot to screenshot it.
>
> To make matters worse, X is not releasing allocated memory after login. It
> persists until the end of the session, when it is finally restarted.
>
> I tried reverting to the default theme (Adwaita), but it doesn't change a
> thing (still leaks).
>
> Finally, CPU usage is also a bit problematic. I suspect it is somehow connected
> to the memory leak. Eventhough 0.2 - 0.4% CPU is not much, it's still unexpected
> for a display manager. Not to mention that it doesn't allow CPU on an otherwise
> dormant machine to go to deep sleep and probably wastes a lot of power.
Can you provide a valgrind log? See
http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/quick-start.html
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis Perez
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