Appears that removing tomcat did not improve matters. In the meantime, replaced the system board with a Gigabyte GA-EP45T- UD3L/Wolfdale E8400/8GB DDR2 PC6400 configuration.
Running with 8GB I can probably go a week between reboots, if the leak rate persists at 600-800MB/day. Today I'm at uptime 3 days 4 hours on the new system board. 33% memory in use (2.6 GB) but only 1.3GB resident memory allocated to processes in system monitor. Yesterday was a non-use day. I still haven't correlated whether the leak rate is usage dependent. This small data point seems to suggest that it is. I've written a script to collect the output of /proc/vmstat every five minutes. I have a run of several days on the old system board with 6GB and I'll be tracing the new system board this week. Small correction: what I called guake in a previous post is actually tilda. I had installed both at the same time (one on each screen). One caused problems and fell into disuse, then I misremembered which was which. Also, guake was alternately guake/yakuake. The only detail I recall clearly of that experiment is that yakuake under Gnome was a bit of a resource hog, and there was some glitch getting guake to start up properly at all. -- severe memory leak began in Karmic, persisting in Lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590566 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
