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- >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> writes:
-
- Tom> Hi all, I want to second the observation that E/L 1.99n seems
- Tom> to have a memory leak under kernel 1.2.10.
-
- Right, that's what Art was running. Mat and I are running 1.2.0 and
- I'm not sure what Cotton is running.
-
- Tom> I haven't
- Tom> registered for executor yet (plan to soon, I was waiting to
- Tom> see what 1.99n was like first) so I ftp'd 1.99n from
- Tom> vorlon.mit.edu, installed it (BTW I like the makefile
- Tom> installation procedure), and fired it up. I get the splash
- Tom> screen and hit "demo" and then watched my xsysinfo swap usage
- Tom> indicator grow and grow and GROW.
-
- I just ran E/L 1.99n over here while running top. I think we have a
- small memory leak each time a new application starts, but it's on the
- order of 1k per application -- any leak is a bad leak, but we're
- definitely seeing different memory footprints on our different
- kernels.
-
- Tom> Finally I just killed the
- Tom> process. Thinking that perhaps incompatible bits of 1.99m
- Tom> were left hanging around after installing 1.99n over the top
- Tom> of it, rm'd the entire executor install tree and installed
- Tom> 1.99n clean and fresh with the same final results. So, like
- Tom> I said I am planning to register right away and I would be
- Tom> more than happy help ARDI focus on squashing this bug. I
- Tom> imagine it really is something having to do with kernel
- Tom> 1.2.10. Tonight I'll switch back to 1.2.8 and also to 1.2.11
- Tom> (or 1.2.12 if such an update comes out later today) to try to
- Tom> narrow this down a bit.
-
- That would be very handy. If anyone out there is running 1.2.10 and
- *not* seeing the memory leak, that would be handy as well as any
- information from anyone running > 1.2.10.
-
- Tom> I running on a 486/66 with 16 Megs,
- Tom> ATI Mach32 Graphics UltraPro with 2 Megs, and Slackware
- Tom> 2.3.0.
-
- Mat and I both use ATI Mach32 cards on 90 MHz P5s. Mat's machine has
- 32 MB, mine, 24. I think he has 2 MB VRAM, and I have 1 MB.
-
- Tom> And while I'm at it, I'd like to take this
- Tom> opportunity to offer my most profuse thanks and praise to
- Tom> ARDI for such a killer product! (my probelms with 1.99n
- Tom> notwithstanding).
-
- Er, I'm not sure that "killer" is the best adjective for a program
- that apparently consumes vast amounts of memory under some kernels.
- Too early to tell whether the kernel hypothesis is true, but if it is,
- and it's our fault, you can see how this could have slipped by.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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