Ubuntu 11.04 and gitk problem

[Anca Emanuel]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John Johansen
<john.johansen at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 02:39 PM, Anca Emanuel wrote:
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:23 AM, John Johansen
>> <john.johansen at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> On 05/14/2011 11:09 PM, Anca Emanuel wrote:
>>>> Hi, all.
>>>>
>>>> I try to run gitk from command line.
>>>>
>>>> Steps to reproduce:
>>>> 1. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>>>> 2. cd linux-2.6
>>>> 3. gitk
>>>>
>>>> I can not run it. That kills my system (2GB RAM) and Unity as well.
>>>> Any ideeas ?
>>>>
>>> gitk is rather memory intensive, when I do gitk at the root of the kernel tree it
>>> has an RSS of 1.6 GB which will push a 2 GB machine well into swap and will likely
>>> cause the oom killer to run
>>>
>>> You should try pruning what you are looking at by either specifying a path
>>>  eg. gitk fs/ext4/
>>
>> Tryied, and the same result.
>> Unity get killed, and I log on again.
>
> does it work if you log in under the classic desktop?
>

No.
I tried also Classic Desktop No Effects. That was different: I need to
press the reset button from my PC.

It was working in Ubuntu 10.10. Not perfect, but I used it.