Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

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

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

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

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

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

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

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

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

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

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

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-

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

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

Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

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

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

On 10/22/2015 08:23 AM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Marc Shapiro (marcns...@gmail.com): On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52: Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I can exit all programs and all

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

On 2015-10-23 at 14:06, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2015 18:20:10 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> For people in my cognitive (disability type) > > [earlier] > >> 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. >> Again. lol =) > > You claim to have cognitive

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

On Friday 23 October 2015 18:20:10 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > For people in my cognitive > (disability type) [earlier] > 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol > =) You claim to have cognitive disability, yet you can keep track of ~350 tabs??? I can't _see_

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

Hi. On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:20:10 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol =) It's possible with iceweasel/firefox. The trick is that firefox 'cheats' and does not load inactive tabs. So, open

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

On 10/22/15, Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 1er brumaire, an CCXXIV, Marc Shapiro a écrit : >> Google was my friend and showed me how to free up that memory ('free && >> sync >> && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free' as root) and all is now >> good >> with the world. >

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

Le duodi 2 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Cindy-Sue Causey a écrit : > Your statement left me confused so I just bypassed it (but kept it > and Tomas' in mind). Five seconds later I entered that full command > into a search engine. For others likewise confused but less bold about > speaking up, this is

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 07:26:14AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] > Don Armstrong had also suggested checking the cache and buffers, > which I had forgotten to do when I restarted [...] To quote an old Linux saw (which just paraphrases many

Browser tabs, was Re: Tracking down memory leaks

Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com): > Hi. > > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:20:10 -0400 > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol =) > > It's possible with iceweasel/firefox. The trick is that firefox >

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52: Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a single console running. Top will show itself and bash, nothing

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

Le primidi 1er brumaire, an CCXXIV, Marc Shapiro a écrit : > Google was my friend and showed me how to free up that memory ('free && sync > && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free' as root) and all is now good > with the world. I hope you realize this is only useful for debugging purposes.

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

Quoting Marc Shapiro (marcns...@gmail.com): > On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52: > > > >>Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... > >>I > >>can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/10/15 20:53, Don Armstrong wrote: > a plugin or add-on which is buggy I second that. I have this issue with a bug in a thunderbird plugin, goes crazy and eats the memory. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: > So how do I tell what is using up the memory and not freeing it up? > Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot? ps -eo pid --sort rss | tail -1 | xargs sudo strace -fp would show what the

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot? yep, typically when your machine goes super slow due to memory you can always drop to a tty ps and kill the process which will bring your machine

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52: > Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I > can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a single console > running. Top will show itself and bash, nothing else, but free can show over > 2GB used. If I

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

On 10/18/2015 12:53 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Marc Shapiro wrote: When I do have to do a reboot I close down everything to a single console running. I then run top and it only shows bash and top. Next time I will run top and include root and daemon processes and see if

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Marc Shapiro wrote: > When I do have to do a reboot I close down everything to a single > console running. I then run top and it only shows bash and top. Next > time I will run top and include root and daemon processes and see if > anything shows up. I am guessing that this is

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

On 10/13/2015 07:32 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2015-10-13 at 10:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an 8GB system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and up to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an 8GB > system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and up > to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions > running, along with 2 instances of Firefox and

Tracking down memory leaks

Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an 8GB system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and up to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions running, along with 2 instances of Firefox and one of Chrome, not to mention up to 3

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

On 2015-10-13 at 10:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a way to determine what is using up my memory? I have an > 8GB system and every few days the memory usage rises to over 7 GB and > up to a GB, or more of swap is used. Granted, I have 3 X sessions > running, along with 2 instances of

Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

Hello, I tried to update my Lenny box, and I got an error: no space left on device. Tried aptitude autoclean, clean, but no luck. I known, it is my own fault, I was too lazy to change the partition scheme give by the D-I at installation. Anyway, there is a line command to use to change the

Re: Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

Thierry Chatelet: Anyway, there is a line command to use to change the amount of reserved space on the partition. I have used it some time ago, but forgot what it is. If some one could refresh my memory You are looking for tune2fs (if you are using ext2/ext3). J. -- People talking a

Re: Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

On Thu August 28 2008 03:27:37 Thierry Chatelet wrote: I tried to update my Lenny box, and I got an error: no space left on device. Tried aptitude autoclean, clean, but no luck. I known, it is my own fault, I was too lazy to change the partition scheme give by the D-I at installation. Anyway,

Re: Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

by the D-I at installation. Anyway, there is a line command to use to change the amount of reserved space on the partition. I have used it some time ago, but forgot what it is. If some one could refresh my memory Thanks. Thierry This is not very clear; your subject says 'memory leaks

Re: Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

subject says 'memory leaks', but 'no space left on device' sounds like a disk partition is full. Which one? Say my own, of course plus but forgot what it is seem to indicate that his brains are leaking out his ears. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till

Re: Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

refresh my memory Thanks. Thierry This is not very clear; your subject says 'memory leaks', but 'no space left on device' sounds like a disk partition is full. Which one? Say my own, of course plus but forgot what it is seem to indicate that his brains are leaking out his ears

Memory leaks and swap

Hi! Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down till it is practically useless. I believe this could be prevented by deactivating

Re: Memory leaks and swap

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:50:39PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: Hi! Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down till

How to find out where memory leaks to

Hey, I am running a quite standard Debian woody setup with the kernel 2.4.18 that comes from the packages. The 2 HDs are in a RAID0, formatted as ext3, with quota installed. Problem is that for some reason after about 1 week the 1 Gb of RAM is completely filled and when looking in top or ps I

Re: How to find out where memory leaks to

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:03:22PM +0200, Thomas De Groote said Hey, I am running a quite standard Debian woody setup with the kernel 2.4.18 that comes from the packages. The 2 HDs are in a RAID0, formatted as ext3, with quota installed. Problem is that for some reason after about 1 week

Re: How to find out where memory leaks to

On the box I was talking about: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:901440 441232 460208 0 90296 247512 -/+ buffers/cache: 103424 798016 Swap: 481928 0 481928 [EMAIL

Re: How to find out where memory leaks to

[Please don't top post! It makes your message harder to read, especially in long threads.] On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:23:51PM +0200, Thomas De Groote said On the box I was talking about: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached

Re: memory leaks

Quoting Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also remember that when trying to diagnose the problem no memory is normal. Linux (the kernel) will use as much memory as it can get away with for buffers and caching. I'm hopping in at the middle here so you might have mentioned that you're aware

Re: memory leaks

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: I know there was a program that was much like top except it recorded all processes that had run along with their peak memory usage, CPU usage over its run, etc. I forget the name of it. Hopefully someone knows of the utility I am referring to and

Re: memory leaks

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:10:40 -0400 (EDT) Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its called atop. It records top info in a binary database every 5 minutes or so and lets you page through it at your liesure. Nope. Took a look at atop and it is completely different than the one I am

memory leaks

hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other user applications running than top. so i believe that a daemon process has a memory leak.

Re: memory leaks

Thus spake matt zagrabelny: hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other user applications running than top. What do you mean by

Re: memory leaks

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:44, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake matt zagrabelny: hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other

Re: memory leaks

matt == matt zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: matt hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you run out of memory? Also, what version of Debian are you running. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: memory leaks

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:45, Shyamal Prasad wrote: matt == matt zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: matt hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you run out of memory? Also, what version of Debian are you running. the normal

Re: memory leaks

matt zagrabelny wrote: i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first _serious_ problem i have run into, and my guess is other people running unstable dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. but i am not experienced enough to debug this one on my own except every

Re: memory leaks

matt zagrabelny wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:45, Shyamal Prasad wrote: matt == matt zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: matt hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you run out of memory? Also, what version of Debian are you running.

Re: memory leaks

Also sprach matt zagrabelny (Mon 23 Jun 02003 at 03:17:47PM -0500): hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other user applications

Re: memory leaks

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, matt zagrabelny wrote: hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other user applications running than top. so i

Re: memory leaks

Hi there, On Die, 2003-06-24 at 04:13, Erik Steffl wrote: What precisely happens when you run out of memory? Also, what version of Debian are you running. the normal scenario is i leave my computer running at night and then i come down in the morning and find applications (usually the

Re: memory leaks

matt == matt zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: matt note: i dont think the leak is in the normal applications as matt mentioned in previous email, something seems to be gobling matt up memory even before i log in to an x environment. What do you have matching /etc/rc2.d/S* on

Re: memory leaks

On 23 Jun 2003 20:33:14 -0500 matt zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first _serious_ problem i have run into, and my guess is other people running unstable dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. Just wanted to confirm

Re: memory leaks

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: matt zagrabelny wrote: i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first _serious_ problem i have run into, and my guess is other people running unstable dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. but i am not experienced

Re: memory leaks

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:17:47PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other user applications

memory leaks, and the proper way to interpret memory usage

Hi, I am tired of memory leaks, and the first step in solving them is figuring out what is causing them. today is a typical example. My box has been up for 5 days, running a single gdm gnome/nautilus session the entire time. mozilla has been running pretty much the entire time, with lots

Detecting memory leaks

Hi ppl, I'm using Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18,KDE 3.1 on a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 MB Swap. I've noticed that in a few days time or weeks the system slows down i.e screen refresh takes longer, apps may take longer to launch,etc. The apps I typically use are

Re: Detecting memory leaks

that's causing the error. I would however like if there was a better way to detect if an apps leaking memory. I don't have source codes of many of the apps so I can't run it in a typical debugger. 'valgrind' should detect memory leaks even if you don't have the source and don't have debugging

2.0.31: no more than 8 swap partitions, memory leaks?

by free was 50 MB higher than just after reboot. Is 2.0.31 known to suffer from memory leaks and bad behaviour when exhausting virtual memory? That would be very bad for a Unix kernel. What is the latest really stable kernel? 2.0.27? Another thing is that swapon does not let me add more than 8