On Sat, Aug 31 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: > Since I upgraded to 3.5.x around two months ago, I've started to sense > the system becoming very sluggish. The other day checking ps output I > found that awesome was taking 800 MiB of resident memory. After > restarting it, the process went back to the normal 12 MiB or so. > > I've noticed that the memory increases (at least) every time I switch > window, either with the keyboard (f.ex. Mod4 + l, Mod4 + k) or with > the mouse. If I keep, say, Mod4 + l pressed permanently I can easily > get the awesome process to increase around 1 MiB every 5 seconds. > > I've set the severity to serious because this is a long-lived process, > and the effects of a leak affect the whole system, but of course if > you disagree please lower it.
The severity sounds right, however that can be triggered by Lua code; are you running with the default configuration ? -- Julien Danjou ;; Free Software hacker ; independent consultant ;; http://julien.danjou.info
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