mono-beagled -- major memory leak

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Wed Mar 8 14:07:09 UTC 2006


Peter Robinson schrieb:

>>>>>>Is anyone else seeing this?  I'm assuming that it is not supposed to
>>>>>>do that.  Any ideas about how to debug this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>Yes I've experienced the same behaviour a couple times. The most recent
>>>this afternoon. It took 5 minutes to have the system respond enough so I
>>>could kill it. It swallowed 300MB of my 512MB RAM and was seriously
>>>thrashing my storage.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Well, I didn't mention high CPU usage as I didn't really notice that.
>>>>I also am not really sure exactly what the above means.  I did notice
>>>>that something locked up my disk really well accessing it for a short
>>>>while.  The I/O wait cycles tied up the entire CPU, so I wasn't able
>>>>to do much to find out what program it was, but it seems likely to
>>>>have been beagled.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I had load numbers nearing 9 when I finally got the beagle program
>>>killed.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I too have just tracked down some nasty problems to beagled malicing my
>>system.  It was when I was gaming every 30 seconds or so my entire IO
>>system would stop responding for a second or so.  I also found it was
>>locking up my system when I was running eclipse and working on the
>>repository in my home directory.
>>
>>The most frustrating part was my inability to turn it off.  If I removed
>>it from gnome-session it always found its way back on login, and then
>>having a cron job to start it up as well is just wrong.
>>
>>I have come to terms with accepting mono apps on fedora ( I love tomboy
>>and f-spot )  but beagle seems to still need some work.
>>    
>>
>
>This sounds like it might be the reason for my desktop suddenly and
>for no apparent reason locking solid. It wouldn't respond to anything
>but then if I had an active unlocked Windows rdesktop session active i
>could still work on that so it was weird. The usual but painful
>solution I've been using is the lovely Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combo to
>kill X.
>
>Pete
>
>  
>
this should be filled in bugzilla and marked as blocker




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