OK, I spoke too soon. My system is snappier sans shredder, but I'm still seeing the leaks. This morning after running overnight, at-spi-registryd showed 27% memory use according to ps auxw. By way of comparison, firefox only showed 13%. Seems rather suspicious that at-spi-registryd would need twice the memory.
This morning I copied the old /usr/lib/at-spi/at-spi-registryd to a backup and linked it to the copy in /usr/local/libexec, so in theory I'm now running the latest from subversion. I've also confirmed that this version is linking against locally-installed libraries. After one page load of a long page, I saw at-spi-registryd memory use spike from 0.6% to 3.9%. I'm watching it steadily increase despite not doing much with the system, just having an IM conversation and checking ps. I'm noticing that my system has become slightly more sluggish--not annoyingly so, but things aren't happening as instantly as they once did, and if the pattern holds, I only have a few more hours or a day of reliable use left. Before I typed this email, it had spiked from 3.9% to a bit over 6 in a manner of minutes, this after remaining below 1% for hours. I don't know what I might have changed to cause this, other than following standard Ubuntu updates and Orca from trunk. So, questions: Is ps auxw a reliable metric? Is the percentage of memory used a reliable indicator? Is there any way to provide more debugging info, other than to continue saying "this isn't working, help!!!"? :) Does anyone else see this behavior? How much memory does an at-spi-registryd process typically require? I am on crappy hardware, so it could be that my 512 megs of RAM isn't enough to begin with, but I can't understand how that would lead to this process slowly consuming more and more memory until it has twice that of firefox. On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:48 +0800, Li Yuan wrote: > Hi Nolan, > > I didn't notice serious leak in at-spi-registryd. I will take a look at > it these days. > > Nolan Darilek wrote: > > > > > > I tried checking out the latest at-spi-registryd from subversion. I > > use stow to keep all locally-installed stuff separate and removable > > from distribution-installed packages. I have > > /usr/local/libexec/at-spi/at-spi-registryd, but > > /usr/lib/at-spi/at-spi-registryd is still being started. How can I > > start my own locally installed at-spi-registryd without replacing the > > Ubuntu packaged version? > You need to build gnome-session to start the right at-spi-registryd. But > this is harder than just replace the system at-spi-registryd. > > > > Until I figure this out, is there some way of stopping/restarting > > at-spi-registryd mid-session? I tried killing it, but after that point > > I was unable to get to a prompt where I could start a new instance. > > Generally I can tell that I'm at a terminal or in the run dialog > > because backspace on an empty line emits a beep, but nothing I did > > brought me to this point. > After you kill at-spi-registryd, the GUI event can not be passed to ATs, > so it shouldn't be killed mid-session. > > Regards, > Li _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
