mwieder wrote:Well, I wasted another half hour on this and managed to get a reported leakage of 5MB after some severe stressing. That's 5 megabytes of private storage and a matching 5 megabytes of virtual storage. On a 4GB system that doesn't even register in the total current usage of 16%. I'm pretty much done testing this.
Well, I wasted a week testing it on 7 different hardware architectures with various distros/versions, (with Intel, NVidia, ATi and Matrox graphic cards) so I'm done with it too.
The only systems (that I know for sure) where LC 5.5.* has no memory leak issue are those with Intel graphics, Ubuntu 10.04 32bit with ATi Open source driver and open source nvidia driver in some set-ups. NVidia, Matrox, ATi on Ubuntu 11...12 - all have this problem, Linux distribution, Ubuntu 10...12, OpenSuSE 12.1, Fedora 16. KDE, Gnome, Unity, XFCE, Enlightenment...
Some say LC-5.5 has no leak on newer AMD Radeon / Catalyst on Kubuntu 12.04, but have not tried it myself.
mwieder, it would help the judgement if you could tell us what graphic card and driver in your system.
Also, to everyone else, run this command in terminal to watch Xorg Memory usage (%MEM column):
enlarge your stack and put there one text field, then start resizing it as far as you can few times, watch the %MEM column - it MUST NOT CHANGE, otherwise you're witnessing the memory leak.
mwieder wrote:
X - if you launch LC from a commandline, are there errors thrown into the terminal? Anything having to do with GTK libraries and such?
No, there are no errors or warnings, LC starts fine. There is irrelevant warning only on some setups (including those without the problem) about missing GTK-2 lib (libappmenu.so) on Ubuntu with Unity Desktop, which is no surprise either.
Happy LiveCoding to everyone
