Hi Shea... I think I've found what causes it! I was running one of my two panels vertically and it seems to me that once enough windows are open the re-drawing of the window icons on the vertical panel causes an infinite loop of some kind (deadlock??) with the mallocs growing mem usage.
Workaround: only use horizontal panels. I happened to try this and have been running this way all day without failure. Horizontal is the default with the Gutsy install so chances are others won't see it. Are you running a panel vertically? If not, can you see if you can reproduce the problem this way? Please let me know how I can help further - unfortunately I don't have time to explore the source code as I have several projects with deadlines. Thanks, Paul Shea McCombs wrote: > This just started happening to me within the last week or two in Feisty. > You can literally sit and watch gnome-panel and it will grow by about > 100KBytes of resident memory every 10 seconds. I tried a few things to > isolate the cause but ended up just running valgrind to see what it saw. > I've attached the output from: > > valgrind -v --leak-check=full gnome-panel > > This was left running overnight for about 8 hours. > > A couple highlights from the leak checker: > ==6757== 197,917,668 bytes in 318,708 blocks are definitely lost in loss > record 210 of 210 > ==6757== at 0x4021620: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149) > ==6757== by 0x48E9A61: XGetWindowProperty (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0) > > ==6757== LEAK SUMMARY: > ==6757== definitely lost: 201,949,576 bytes in 462,132 blocks. > > Current workaround: don't run gnome-panel > > Basic machine stats: > Ubuntu 7.04 > P4-2.85, HT enabled, SMP kernel > 2GB RAM > proprietary nvidia driver, 100.14.19 > > > ** Attachment added: "valgrind -v --leak-check=full gnome-panel" > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10049220/gnome-panel-valgrind.txt > > -- Possible memory leak? gome-panel is a memory hog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108812 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
