Re: [gentoo-user] Debug memory leaks in X server

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Monday 26 Nov 2012 09:56:27 Florian Philipp wrote:
>> Hi list!
>>
>> I have a suspicion that viewing certain PDFs in okular causes X server
>> to leak memory. Currently it is using 1.8 GB after 3 days uptime. Has
>> anyone else observed that? Is there a way to inspect X server's memory
>> usage?
> I have noticed that okular recently started breaking into a sweat when it
> renders pdf files.  Even a four page document with a bit of colour and
> graphics seems to push the cpu:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 16387 michael   23   3  466m  52m  30m S  102  1.3   0:36.88 /usr/bin/okular
> <<< SNIP >>>
>
> Once rendered, the CPU goes down to normal levels.  The problem does not seem
> to occur when the pdf is just text, i.e. no photographs, or complex graphics
> in it.
>
> Other than the various top apps, perhaps you can try lsof?

I have a local grocery store that I have to go to the website to get
their sale ads.  Anyway, it is generally 2 pages and even on this 4 core
rig with more than plenty of ram, it takes a bit to open them.  Funny
thing is, I have some that is about sewing, lots of pictures in those
since I need pics to get the idea, anyway, they load up in a flash.  As
soon as Okular loads, the pages are there. 

Since this is more like what Florian describes, I guess we see the same
things.  I'm not sure about ram itself but some files do open
differently.  By the way, the grocery ad is a much smaller file than the
sewing files.  Both in file size and number of pages.  One would expect
it to be the opposite. 

Looks like I have a problem that I didn't know I had.  With 16Gbs of
ram, I hadn't noticed anything with the ram, other than Seamonkey being
its usual hoggy self.  :/   I guess this is to sort of confirm that
someone else sees a similar thing to Florian. 

Dale

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