Re: Possible memory leak.

on Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:36:48PM +0100, Mattias Svensson wrote:
> 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
> 

Okey I'll look into it. 

> 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.
> 

try;

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

Thats seems to improve the fact the kernel only lets you have ~70% of
the available memory before killing things off.

  -- Matthew