Free mem on joyride 2444 (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-09-16 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found. > > -- > > A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache. > > Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3 > >

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-25 Thread riccardo
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 21:31 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01:07PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: < ... > > > Btw it's a shame that the python processes are grouped all together. I > > wond

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-24 Thread david
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > I did the following as a basic test for memory usage of various python > modules. I did the test on my computer, a 32-bit Centrino laptop running > ubuntu. > > Let's start with the following code: > >import gobject >mainloop = gobje

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-24 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
I did the following as a basic test for memory usage of various python modules. I did the test on my computer, a 32-bit Centrino laptop running ubuntu. Let's start with the following code: import gobject mainloop = gobject.MainLoop() mainloop.run() Cost: 1.2MB of memory (1.2MB t

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > 6.5 Mib according to ps_mem > > You are right, it's enabled in joyride... it's failing for me because > it can't find msh0 (not sure why). > > Marco > I filed #8128 to address the memory usage that seems excessive. I have also disabled cerebro from start-up while

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread pgf
ton van overbeek wrote: > Also idle suspend is enabled again in 2325, while it should be off. i think this was intentional. now that we're building separate release ("Subject: New release8.2 build 7nn") and joyride streams, idle suspend was re-enabled in joyride in order to help continue flushin

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've s

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug >> report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, n

Re: Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug > report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure > if it has been fixed or something weird is going on. Cerebro is enabled

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:01:07PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but > > the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. >

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:36:17AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > Which row are you looking at here? In -/+ buffers/cache I get 130368. > This is joyride-2328. That test was using the free value on the first line, which matches MemFree in /proc/meminfo. I chose that because I knew that afte

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but > the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. > > http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I > t

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found. > > -- > > A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache. > > Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3 > >

Cerebro (was Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708))

2008-08-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also tried using ps_mem.py to compare memory used by processes, but > the method that ps_mem.py uses has changed as a result of kernel change. > > http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2008-08-22-ps-mem/ has the samples that I > t

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-22 Thread James Cameron
I've 703 and 2311 available to compare. Here's a few things I found. -- A test to compare available memory by eliminating buffer cache. Method: boot, wait for UI to be stable, switch to text console, echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, run free(1) and note the "free" column, repeat a few times.

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Noticed the following: > After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top > on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free. > Booting into 708 with the same set of

Re: Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Noticed the following: > After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top > on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free. > Booting into 708 with the same set of activities shows 82828k free.

Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

2008-08-21 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Noticed the following: After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free. Booting into 708 with the same set of activities shows 82828k free. Is there a 'min amount of free memory' release criteri