Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:48:38PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:04:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > afirefox: After using an affected Firefox profile > > > > Ok, let's breakdown it (left is aboot, right is afirefox). > > Here we see about 2Gb of memory cons

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:04:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > afirefox: After using an affected Firefox profile > > Ok, let's breakdown it (left is aboot, right is afirefox). > Here we see about 2Gb of memory consumed: > > MemFree:32124660 kB / MemFree:30144704 kB > > Such discrepan

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:06:01PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:10:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of slabtop. > > If you're need to understand where all that memory gone - you're in need > > of proper t

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:10:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of slabtop. > If you're need to understand where all that memory gone - you're in need > of proper tools. I have saved the output of slabtop and /proc/meminfo for: aboot: Directly afte

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread nito
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:12:52AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Did this cause a problem, or are you chasing a number you don't > like? I avoided possible problems until now, as every time I expected to need a lot of memory and the "used memory" was larger than expected I rebooted beforehand. Also

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12020-03-28): > Is this causing a problem for you? Not understanding something is a problem by itself. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Dan Ritter
n...@dismail.de wrote: > after upgrading my hardware I started to notice what seemed like memory > leaks. Did this cause a problem, or are you chasing a number you don't like? > 650MiB(with MATE) of RAM are being used and after extended use, when closing > all > gui-programs except a termina

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:56:37PM +0100, n...@dismail.de wrote: > But now I would often end up with something between +600MiB and +2.5GiB. > When looking at top or htop no process using nearly that much memory is > listed. /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of s

Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread nito
Hi everyone, after upgrading my hardware I started to notice what seemed like memory leaks. After booting my desktop machine usually around 450MiB(with i3) or 650MiB(with MATE) of RAM are being used and after extended use, when closing all gui-programs except a terminal, based on prior experienc