(oops, accidental single-user reply ... damn gmail !) > Looks like inkscape leaks memory too fast ... then your swap fills (your > machine becomes slower), and when filled you get into an OOM (out of > memory) situation, and your poor kernel tries hard to recover ... :( > > When inkscape is killed, gnome still has to come out of swap space by > pieces ... > > > What I've been doing is a) avoiding inkscape > > especially when there is sodipodi available ...
I don't think the problem's with inkscape, since a) inkscape is a relatively stable and mature program (at least, I haven't found any other accounts of this kind of stuff on the 'net) b) I used to get the same problem with mozilla and firefox (hmm, but now that I remember, I think it mainly happened on pages with Java in them, I'm not quite sure) It probably *is* some kind of memory leak, but I don't think an Inkscape bug is the main cause :-P
