Bug#224371: gnome-applets: pegged to 100% on upgrade to 2.4.23

[Amelia A Lewis]

Dear Christian,

Absolutely correct.  See details below.

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:54:29 +0100
Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> wrote:

> Amelia A Lewis <alewis@tibco.com> writes:
> 
> > Package: gnome-applets
> > Version: 2.4.0-3
> > Severity: normal
> > Followup-For: Bug #224371
> >
> > On two different debian/unstable machines, upgrading the kernel to
> > 2.4.23 produces the 100% memory usage glitch.  On the other machine,
> > it's a custom kernel, upgraded from 2.4.22-ac4, and is SMP.  On this
> > machine, the upgrade was from from kernel package 2.4.20-7 (to
> > package 2.4.23-1).  It appears that there's something in common,
> > then, between 2.4.23 and 2.6.0, but the problem doesn't appear on
> > kernels earlier than 2.4.23 (I know! it's using the brk() system
> > call!)
> 
> This work normally here with a standard 2.4.23 and FYI this applet use
> libgtop2 then the problem is may be a libgtop bug. Could you downgrade
> to a previous libgtop2 package to test ?

I obtained 2.0.5-4 from snapshot.debian.net and installed it via dpkg
with --force-downgrade.  After removing the applet from the panel, then
adding it back, the memory reporting was corrected (when it pegs as
100%, it shows it all as allocated by user; when it is reporting
correctly, the bar graph shows user, shared, buffers, and cache (or at
any rate, it changes color from top to bottom)).

I would agree that it's a problem in libgtop2, and would recommend that
the bug be reassigned to that package.

Amy!
-- 
Amelia A. Lewis
Architect, TIBCO/Extensibility, Inc.
alewis@tibco.com