Hello again, E users:
I had an interesting E session yesterday. I was stress testing a
script I wrote to create edj files and put them on workspace
backgrounds. I was changing backgrounds frequently, and I noticed the
system was getting sluggish, but didn't realize the problem until I
tried to use an E menu to start a terminal and a popup from E said it
could not fork a process. Hm. In an existing xterm I ran top and
found that E was using 85% of my system's 1 gig of memory and 2 gig of
swap was full.
I restarted several times and re-tested and E's memory consumption
would begin around 1.5% of the system, which is fine. After flushing
through several background changes, it appeared to me that E's memory
consumption grows about 3% each time the backgrounds are changed (on a
system with 8 desktops).
I'm attaching the script I was using and the edc file it requires to
make edj files. I wonder if you run this over and over,
epjbackground.pl -c Y -w 2 -d /usr/local/share/Backgrounds
epjbackground.pl -c Y -w 3 -d /usr/local/share/Backgrounds
epjbackground.pl -c Y -w 4 -d /usr/local/share/Backgrounds
[and so forth for all workspaces]
do you see the same thing?
This happens in a Fedora 8 system running
enlightenment-startup-1.0-2.fc8.prof_k
enlightenment-backgrounds-1.0-2.fc8.prof_k
enlightenment-0.16.999.042-6.20080225cvs.fc8.prof_k
How to diagnose? Does enlightenment_remote have a way to report on memory usage?
I tested this running E as a stand-alone desktop environment as well
as a window manager within a Gnome desktop. Same outcome.
PJ
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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
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University of Kansas
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