FS#9371 - kernel26-testing - Memory leak?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sascha Bennek (goethe) - Monday, 28 January 2008, 05:08 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 20:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
The longer my machine runs, the more memory is allocated and not freed. Kernel Version is 2.6.24-2.
My system feels more sluggish compared to 2.6.23. I've compiz-fusion running, too, proprietary nvidia driver and conky.
logfiles show nothing extraordinary, i guess.
I'm not really sure if it's a bug or not, although 2.6.23 didn't show this behaviour. I've attached a file with meminfos.


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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Monday, 11 February 2008, 20:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 09:46 GMT
I don't see any problems here. You have only 450MB used, which quite few when running compiz. Blame Xorg/mesa, firefox or compiz for your memory usage, they all _seem_ to leak considerably for me.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 10:34 GMT
Given the fact that Xorg allocates memory for pixmaps stored in the server (and keeps them allocated as long as clients don't free it), and he's running a firefox nightly, I don't think it's actually the kernel that has problems here. Add a double-buffered desktop to that for compiz and you've got a nice memory usage here.
Comment by Smith Dhumbumroong (zodmaner) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 13:28 GMT
I also run into this 'problem' after upgrading my kernel to 2.6.24.1-2. The whole machine feels noticeably more sluggish.

I'm on x86_64, by the way.
Comment by Smith Dhumbumroong (zodmaner) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 18:49 GMT
OK, I've found out that a misconfiged cpufreq is the cause of my problem, not the new kernel.

Please ignore my comment, and sorry for causing any confusion. :(
Comment by Smith Dhumbumroong (zodmaner) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 18:59 GMT
PS. After I properly edited the /etc/conf.d/cpufreq file, my system no longer feel 'sluggish'.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 11 February 2008, 19:16 GMT
@Thomas, Jan: "Not a bug" here?

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