Re: [Synaptic-devel] Extremely high memory consumption

[Michael Vogt]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:38:28PM +0100, Bernd Waibel wrote:
> Hello Synaptic developers,
Hi Bernd, 

> when using synaptic over a time, doing some small updates (only about
> 1-10 packages at a time, but not only one update/install but doing this
> some times) the memory consumption becomes very, very high.
> 
> Today synaptic uses about 1 gig of ram, after running about 2 hours. I
> installed/updated around 100 packages, not at once, but as described
> above in chunks of 1-10 packages. After one update, when synaptic reads
> in the package file lists again, it usually allocates new memory, May
> this be a memory leak? For me, it looks as if synaptic did not free its
> previously used memory for the package lists.
> 
> I've seen a previous thread pointing this, but the thread was from
> january and the reply (from Michael Vogt) sais to try version 0.47 of
> synaptic. Ok, I use version 0.47 together with apt 0.5.15cnc5 on
> fedora-core 1 and encounter the same problems, so I decided to write
> again.

Thanks for this bugreport. I talked with Gustavo Niemeyer about this
issue and he confirmed that there is/was a memeory leak in
apt-rpm. AFAIK the fix is only in the subversion repository yet and
not released (Gustavo, please correct me if I'm wrong here). 

The problem is that synaptic triggers this bug whereas apt-get usually
exits after a installing/removing packages. I guess that's why this
leak was not noticed until recently.
 
[..] 
> You've done a very great work with synaptic, thanks to you all. Hope
> this will improve this tool further.

Yes, thanks for your report and great that you like synaptic :)

bye,
 Michael

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