Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
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 cons

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
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 discrepan

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
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 t

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
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 afte

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread nito
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

2020-03-28 Thread Nicolas George
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

2020-03-28 Thread Dan Ritter
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-programs except a termina

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Reco
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 s