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List:       kde-solaris
Subject:    Re: [kde-solaris] Memory leak in KDe 3.1?
From:       Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri () pweb2 ! geo ! vip ! scd ! yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-03-28 20:23:50
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On Saturday 22 March 2003 04:38 am, LeBar, Russell J wrote:
> Using my previously posted memstat.pl tool I have noticed that KDE sessions
> appear to be slowly consuming resources after the user does something. I
> have a test user account that I've just left there doing nothing and no
> memory increase occurs. However, as soon as I do something such as bringing
> up a konsole and then exiting it results in a slight permanent increase in
> memory. As best I can tell just about anything you do will have this net
> effect.
>
> Is this really a memory leak or am I catching e.g. part of the file cache
> (since the stack, heap, and "anon" are included in the calculation)? Has
> anyone else observed something similar? Using my tool and kompare it looks
> like usually just the heap is increasing in size.
>
> If this was a single-user workstation I would not be too concerned but I
> was hoping to run this on our Sun Ray servers (about 70 users, 2/3 on one
> server and 1.3 on the other).
>
> Thanks!
>
Do you have more information on this?  Like what app?  Are you getting 
confused with normal cacheing of resources? This can happen on linux quite a 
bit. 

Do you have a way to detect what app is leaking so we can profile the code 
more closely?

Thanks
	-ian reinhart geiser
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