Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: >> From the debian-devel, I learnt that sometimes applications that >> send images to X to be displayed will cause that behavior; it looks >> like X allocated all that memory, but it's actually the app's fault. > Hummm. I see. I think that this is quite a strange be

Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: >> Yes, but did you manage to run gnapster-gtk, xdvi, or some other >> graphical tools under memprof? That didn't work here. > Well, yes and no. :-) > All the packages that I'm using here were packaged by Helix > Gnome and this includes both memprof and

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-29 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 30 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Rogerio Brito writes: > > That's weird. I'll keep trying to see what behaviour I get > > from my installation (I'll install a brand new woody machine > > after the weekend -- perhaps Monday or Tuesday -- which will > > be my guinea pig

Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-29 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 30 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Rogerio Brito writes: > > What did you try? I did some things here and it displayed some > > cool graphics. Nice toy. > > Yes, but did you manage to run gnapster-gtk, xdvi, or some other > graphical tools under memprof? That didn't work here.

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: > On Nov 27 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >> Guess what? After quitting gnapster (gtk), X went back to its 30 >> Mb... > That's weird. I'll keep trying to see what behaviour I get > from my installation (I'll install a brand new woody machine > after

Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: >> Memprof sems to be totally undocumented, and I tried several of the >> command line options, none of which worked... > What did you try? I did some things here and it displayed some > cool graphics. Nice toy. Yes, but did you manage to run gnapster-gtk, x

Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-29 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 28 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > So... IS there some other application I could use to find memory > leaks, other than memprof? Wow. I didn't know this memprof thing. Quite cool, huh? The only memory analyzing program that I knew about was memstat, which:

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-29 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 27 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Guess what? After quitting gnapster (gtk), X went back to its 30 > Mb... That's weird. I'll keep trying to see what behaviour I get from my installation (I'll install a brand new woody machine after the weekend -- perhaps Monday

Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:02:22AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Ok, so I tried to run memproof on gnapster, and nothing happened... > > Also tried gcalc, gnome-terminal, gtkcookie, gtkfind, gtkgraph, and > same thing: nothing happened (as if the program had been started, but > quit immed

Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, so I tried to run memproof on gnapster, and nothing happened... Also tried gcalc, gnome-terminal, gtkcookie, gtkfind, gtkgraph, and same thing: nothing happened (as if the program had been started, but quit immediately). Sme for xosview, xfig... But it did work with wterm. So... IS there s

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Eric G Miller writes: > Hmm, I saw a big memory leak with Sawfish a while back that also showed > up under X. I ditched Sawfish and went back to IceWm and the problem > went away. I don't think this is a "gtk" bug, but rather some other > general programming errors, but the memory happens to

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:02:53PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > I've noticed the same situation here. Either X 4 is really > > memory hungry (and this makes Linux swap a lot) or there are > > some very bad memory leaks that should be audited. > > Guess what? After quitting gna

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Rogerio Brito writes: > Hi there, J. Hello Roger! > I've noticed the same situation here. Either X 4 is really > memory hungry (and this makes Linux swap a lot) or there are > some very bad memory leaks that should be audited. Guess what? After quitting gnapster (gtk)

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 27 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: [X 4 taking 80+MB of resident memory] > Why Does that happen? I never saw that sort of thing before (maybe > because I never had so much memory -- I bought more 64 Mb RAM some > days ago...) Hi there, J. I've noticed the same situation he

top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello... I'm using X 4 (from Woody), and I just noticed some strange thing: 10963 root 10 0 96404 80M 972 S 0 0.1 64.8 2:49 X ^^ (1st place, sorted by mem. usage) socrates jeronimo$ free total used free sharedb