Fwd: gnome-mag's memory usage

[Aurelian Radu]

Hi, Carlos,

I was using the gnome-mag and gnopernicus versions available in Ubuntu 6.06 
and in SUSE Linux 10.1, so I don't think the problem is related to a 
specific distribution. I used gnome-mag through gnopernicus. 8x 
magnification factor; left = 0, right = 767, top = 540, bottom = 1023, i.e. 
the lower third of a 1024x768 display (color depth = 24). Crosshair: off; 
mouse tracking: proportional; cursor tracking: auto. I use the nvidia 
proprietary drivers, so I have 3D acceleration and more than 7000 FPS.

At the time when I noticed this memory leak I was using mainly Firefox. When 
I open a new page and scroll through it, the memory usage increases, because 
I think gnome-mag (or maybe gnopernicus?) caches the new images it displays.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diogenes" <cerdiogenes at yahoo.com.br>
To: "Aurelian Radu" <ricaradu at gmail.com>
Cc: <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>; 
<gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: gnome-mag's memory usage


> Hi Aurelian,
>
> Are you running gnome-mag throw gnopernicus? What are the configurations
> that you have setted to the magnifier?
>
> Could you describe what tasks you was doing (during this half an hour)
> when this memory leak happened? I runned the magnifier here and stay
> using the magnifier during a long time (about one hour) and I don't
> notice any big memory consumption.
>
> Thanks,
> Carlos.
>
> Em Sáb, 2006-08-19 às 13:16 +0300, Aurelian Radu escreveu:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Aurelian Radu <ricaradu at gmail.com>
>> Date: Aug 19, 2006 12:13 PM
>> Subject: gnome-mag's memory usage
>> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com,
>> gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org
>>
>> I removed the attached screenshots to comply with the 40 KB/message
>> limit.
>>
>> Hello, lists,
>>
>> After half an hour of using gnome-mag, memory usage for the magnifier
>> process increased to around 625 MB, as seen in the attached
>> screenshots. Is this a memory leak or is it a feature? Is this huge
>> cache really necessary? It is true that the magnifier process releases
>> some memory when needed by other applications, but the system becomes
>> really slow.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Aurelian Radu
>>
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