Possible Memory Leak with Fedora 9 64-bit?
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From: Stefan Patric on 24 Jun 2008 17:48 Anyone experiencing what appears to be a memory leak with Fedora 9 64- bit? System is unusable--keyboard unresponsive and cursor barely so, all apps frozen. There is continuous hard drive activity. The only way to get out of it is hitting the Reset button. This happens every few days (I run the system 24/7) with only these apps running: 2 tabbed shells, file manager, and Firefox 3. I'm thinking that Firefox is the problem. Years ago, I had similar behavior with it, in addition to it just totally crashing, but this hasn't happen for a long time. I've taken to quitting Firefox when I go to bed, but leave it running during the day. So far, the problem has only been occurring when Firefox is running. After rebooting, logs don't show anything out of the ordinary. The swap is empty. Anyone got ideas? Stef
From: Jean-David Beyer on 24 Jun 2008 18:18 Stefan Patric wrote: > Anyone experiencing what appears to be a memory leak with Fedora 9 64- > bit? System is unusable--keyboard unresponsive and cursor barely so, all > apps frozen. There is continuous hard drive activity. The only way to > get out of it is hitting the Reset button. > > This happens every few days (I run the system 24/7) with only these apps > running: 2 tabbed shells, file manager, and Firefox 3. I'm thinking > that Firefox is the problem. Years ago, I had similar behavior with it, > in addition to it just totally crashing, but this hasn't happen for a > long time. > > I've taken to quitting Firefox when I go to bed, but leave it running > during the day. So far, the problem has only been occurring when Firefox > is running. > > After rebooting, logs don't show anything out of the ordinary. The swap > is empty. > > Anyone got ideas? > I have only run 32-bit machines. I have never had a memory leak with Linux. I ran Red Hat Linux starting with 5.0. I currently run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. One thing I would do (I do it all the time anyway) is run xosview all the time in one of the workspaces. It gives, among other things, a graphical display of memory consumption. For my machine, with 8 GBytes of RAM, it would take quite a while to run it out of RAM unless you deliberately put in a memory gobbling program. With xosview, you could watch the memory usage increase and by running top, you could see which process is gobbling it up. I doubt it is the kernel. You could have cron run free and dump its output into a logfile to keep track of memory usage. As far as FireFox is concerned, I have not had trouble with it running out of memory, or anywhere close. Right now I have FireFox version 3.0b5 running and it is taking 177 Meg virtual and 43 Meg RES memory, which is not much for me. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 18:05:01 up 13 days, 22:42, 5 users, load average: 4.25, 4.22, 4.18
From: Sam on 24 Jun 2008 18:29 Stefan Patric writes: > I've taken to quitting Firefox when I go to bed, but leave it running > during the day. So far, the problem has only been occurring when Firefox > is running. Well, there you go. Firefox is leaking memory. Now, check what Firefox plugins you are using, and try disabling them one by one.
From: General Schvantzkopf on 24 Jun 2008 19:01 On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:48:58 +0000, Stefan Patric wrote: > Anyone experiencing what appears to be a memory leak with Fedora 9 64- > bit? System is unusable--keyboard unresponsive and cursor barely so, > all apps frozen. There is continuous hard drive activity. The only way > to get out of it is hitting the Reset button. > > This happens every few days (I run the system 24/7) with only these apps > running: 2 tabbed shells, file manager, and Firefox 3. I'm thinking > that Firefox is the problem. Years ago, I had similar behavior with it, > in addition to it just totally crashing, but this hasn't happen for a > long time. > > I've taken to quitting Firefox when I go to bed, but leave it running > during the day. So far, the problem has only been occurring when > Firefox is running. > > After rebooting, logs don't show anything out of the ordinary. The swap > is empty. > > Anyone got ideas? > > > Stef Run gnome-system-monitor as well so that you can see what's using up your memory.
From: Ignoramus19021 on 24 Jun 2008 19:29
On 2008-06-24, Stefan Patric <not(a)thisaddress.com> wrote: > Anyone experiencing what appears to be a memory leak with Fedora 9 64- > bit? System is unusable--keyboard unresponsive and cursor barely so, all > apps frozen. There is continuous hard drive activity. The only way to > get out of it is hitting the Reset button. you need to open a terminal and type top, then hit letter M to sort processes by Memory use. You will see who is using it. Compiz fusion screwed me up in this manner recently. i > This happens every few days (I run the system 24/7) with only these apps > running: 2 tabbed shells, file manager, and Firefox 3. I'm thinking > that Firefox is the problem. Years ago, I had similar behavior with it, > in addition to it just totally crashing, but this hasn't happen for a > long time. > > I've taken to quitting Firefox when I go to bed, but leave it running > during the day. So far, the problem has only been occurring when Firefox > is running. > > After rebooting, logs don't show anything out of the ordinary. The swap > is empty. > > Anyone got ideas? > > > Stef -- Due to extreme spam originating from Google Groups, and their inattention to spammers, I and many others block all articles originating from Google Groups. If you want your postings to be seen by more readers you will need to find a different means of posting on Usenet. http://improve-usenet.org/ |