Memory leak on Gutsy

[Tony Arnold]

Laura,


Laura Conrad wrote:
> I upgraded my laptop from Feisty to Gutsy about a month ago.  This
> machine is used mainly for web browsing and video playing, so I didn't
> mind testing an unreleased distribution, and if the answer to the
> problem is to reinstall from scratch, it isn't a big deal.
> 
> At first it seemed that Gutsy was working fine, but then I noticed
> that while under Feisty I could leave the machine booted for weeks at
> a time, under Gutsy, the performance would deteriorate after a day or
> two and I would have to reboot.  
> 
> "top" says that the culprit that is taking up more memory on the
> second day than the first is "udevd":
> 
> top - 12:55:23 up 17:07,  4 users,  load average: 2.62, 2.47, 2.39
> Tasks: 112 total,   6 running, 106 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 88.7%us,  4.0%sy,  1.0%ni,  0.0%id,  5.5%wa,  0.5%hi,  0.2%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:    766600k total,   759104k used,     7496k free,     1112k buffers
> Swap:   642560k total,   184660k used,   457900k free,    47304k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
>  2546 root      21  -4  185m 184m  412 R 89.9 24.6 821:00.60 udevd              
> 30671 lconrad   15   0  329m 157m  23m S  7.8 21.1  79:16.92 firefox-bin        
> 31874 lconrad   15   0 72744  20m   9m R  2.0  2.8   7:16.93 /usr/bin/gnome-    
>     1 root      15   0  2952  536  484 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.36 init               
> 
> This is after running for less than a day, and with no particular load:

I had a similar problem. The solution is to remove the package evms. You
can use synaptic or aptitude oor whatever you prefer. E.g.:

	sudo aptitude purge evms

And then you may need to reboot.

Regards,
Tony.
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