Bug#409127: Comp 101

[Josselin Mouette]

reopen 409127
thanks

Le vendredi 16 février 2007 à 20:09 +0100, grfgguvf at gmail.com a écrit :
> Ok. Dear little Mark,
> 
> First of all, I don't know what tool did you use to see the memory
> usage of at-spi-registryd, but those processes are obvously not using
> 512MB. As you see, from the package list that at-spi-registryd depends
> on, it uses a lot of code libraries. On a system with support for
> "virtual memory", code libraries are only in memory once, and are
> mapped into the address space (virtual memory region) of all the
> processes using them. Apart from libatspi, all the others are
> therefore shared and should not be counted as the "memory usage" of
> at-spi-redistryd. Even more importantly, "virtual memory usage"
> involves memory that is only mapped*, and not actually used. This
> means among other things files mapped for read... Even the "resident
> memory usage" has all the shared code and data counted. The real
> memory usage of the two at-spi-registryd processes is likely in the
> 1-2MB range. Moreover, excessive memory use or virtual memory usage
> overcommitting can not cause "system freezes". This is realy Comp 101.

While all of this is true, it cannot account for more than 400 megabytes
of virtual memory like it was reported. There is definitely a memory
leak here.

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