Re: Memory leak

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From	Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Memory leak
Date	Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:00:01 +0100
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:58:40 -0800
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> wrote:

> On Fri Feb 11 09:43:03 2022 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:53:17 -0700
>  > Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:06:01 -0500
>  >> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) -
>  >>> the memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep
>  >>> increasing.
>  >>>
>  >>> This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid,
>  >>> running Xfce4. Typical applications used are Firefox (currently with
>  >>> just one extension: uBlock Origin), LibreOffice Writer, Sylpheed,
>  >>> Xfce4 Terminal, and Liferea, all from the official repos.
>  >>
>  >> Firefox left running for days on end is a possible culprit.
>  >
>  > So I've heard. So is this something I just have to live with? Does
>  > everyone have this problem? I actually did used to kill firefox
>  > when I was experiencing memory pressure - it certainly relieved
>  > the immediate problem, but I think I found that not all the memory
>  > used was returned, and when I restarted firefox, the problem of
>  > running out of memory often returned before long (i.e., in much
>  > less time than after a fresh install).
> 
> You can quickly test this by taking Firefox down.  If the problem is
> indeed with Firefox (as opposed to Debian), this isn't the place to
> discuss it.

As I mentioned in another post, I do this occasionally, but I'm not
sure how to interpret the results. I just killed firefox; I got back
about 3.5 GB, but the system is still using about 4.8, and Xorg's usage
hasn't changed: ~ 4436M / 3081M / 105M.

Celejar

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Re: Memory leak Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2022-02-11 19:20 +0100
  Re: Memory leak piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-02-11 19:30 +0100
    Re: Memory leak <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-12 09:20 +0100
  Re: Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 21:00 +0100
    Re: Memory leak Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-11 22:00 +0100
      Re: Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 22:30 +0100

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