natty has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the natty task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Natty) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to nux in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages, dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/758248 Title: memory leaking in compiz Status in Nux: Fix Released Status in Unity: Fix Released Status in compiz package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in nux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in compiz source package in Natty: Invalid Status in nux source package in Natty: Fix Released Status in unity source package in Natty: Won't Fix Bug description: ======================== Fixed in natty-proposed Test case: 1. install nux version 0.9.48-0ubuntu1.1 and restart your session 2. check the current memory of nux with your favorite tool 3. trigger <what made the mem leak> 4. check again the memory taken by nux (compiz process) and see that it didn't increase ======================== Binary package hint: compiz I noticed today that compiz had hit 4G of memory over 2 days. I updated to the latest of everything today and rebooted, after following a modified version of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/DebuggingWithValgrind and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind against /usr/bin/compiz, and am attaching the valgrind logs now. Summary shows: ==7291== LEAK SUMMARY: ==7291== definitely lost: 148,549 bytes in 1,898 blocks ==7291== indirectly lost: 2,488,656 bytes in 14,344 blocks ==7291== possibly lost: 1,527,217 bytes in 4,375 blocks ==7291== still reachable: 28,831,515 bytes in 63,181 blocks ==7291== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==7291== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown. ==7291== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes With the most extreme: ==7291== 404,504 (4,320 direct, 400,184 indirect) bytes in 54 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 24,631 of 24,640 ... ==7291== by 0x7327398: g_type_create_instance (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.5) ... ==7291== by 0x172A899E: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data (in /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.2300.3) ... ==7291== by 0x154DAD18: nux::UXTheme::Load2DTextureFile(char const*) (in /usr/lib/libnux-0.9.so.0.938.4) $ bzcat /tmp/compiz-valgrind.log.bz2 | grep '== [^ ]' | grep 'definitely lost' | wc -l 1675 This is from running compiz (with Unity) for about 5 minutes. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,move,regex,resize,gnomecompat,mousepoll,snap,place,wall,imgpng,resizeinfo,vpswitch,animation,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,session,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz DRM.card0.DVI.D.1: status: connected enabled: enabled dpms: On modes: 1920x1200 1600x1200 1280x1024 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 720x400 edid-base64: AP///////wAQrBXwTDZDNCEUAQOANCB47h7Frk80sSYOUFSlSwCBgKlA0QBxTwEBAQEBAQEBKDyAoHCwI0AwIDYABkQhAAAaAAAA/wBDNTkyTTA4QzRDNkwKAAAA/ABERUxMIFUyNDEwCiAgAAAA/QA4TB5REQAKICAgICAgAGw= DRM.card0.VGA.1: status: disconnected enabled: disabled dpms: Off modes: edid-base64: Date: Mon Apr 11 17:48:36 2011 DistroCodename: natty DistroVariant: ubuntu GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29b2] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4f4a] Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4f4a] PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=/dev/mapper/systemvg-root2lv ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Renderer: Unknown SourcePackage: compiz UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2006-11-27 (1596 days ago) XorgConf: Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "False" EndSection dmi.bios.date: 09/22/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp. dmi.bios.version: JOQ3510J.86A.0954.2008.0922.2331 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: DQ35JO dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.board.version: AAD82085-800 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrJOQ3510J.86A.0954.2008.0922.2331:bd09/22/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDQ35JO:rvrAAD82085-800:cvn:ct3:cvr: version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu12 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu6 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nux/+bug/758248/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp