Re: Possible memory leak.

Mattias Svensson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.matchbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have an iPAQ 3630, 15MB flash and 32 MB SDRAM.
I am using the "bootgpe.jfss2" image of familiar 0.6. "familiar-version"
says "Familiar v0.6-pre1".
"matchbox -v" gives "matchbox 0.3.6"

I do not se that other dock apps create the same symptom.
It seems like every time I click the miniapm it trows up a new info bubble
on top of the old one, and the mem usage rises with every click. Maybe it
does not clean up after itself?
The other dock apps also pops a new info bubble but they do not cause the
mem usage to rise.
I do not know if I can trust the output of ps, but VmSize for miniapm is
3892 and only 3388 for rxvt-aa. From these numbers it seems like miniapm
uses a lot of mem.

Wheter /proc/apm gives 'normal' results...  I think so. an example:  cat
/proc/apm -> 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0xff 100% 300 min

It may be the kernel that is causing my problems, since when I try to start
a program that does not fit the available memory the kernel kills any other
process to make room. I posted this on the Familiar mail list earlier.

/M Svensson

Matthew Allum wrote:

> Hmmm, this is strange - it doesn't seem to happen for me.
>
> What ipaq / matchbox version are you running ?
>
> When clicked on, do other dock apps cause the same problem ?
>
> Does /proc/apm give 'normal' results ?
>
> Does the memory usage rise whilst you are clicking or after ?
>
>     -- Matthew
>
> on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:35:27PM +0100, Mattias Svensson wrote:
> > While having some programs running (memory usage about 60%) and having
> > some dock apps running, I finger the Battery monitor (miniapm) a couple
> > of times.
> > Then I see CPU usage go to 100% for about 2 seconds, and the mem usage
> > rises, and suddenly the mem is full. Now the Kernel starts to kill
> > arbitrary processes and I am thrown out of my session.
> > I am running a clean install of Familiar 0.6 with GPE.
> >
> > / M Svensson
> >
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