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 ?

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Julien Danjou
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