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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:22:26 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Modulok <modulok@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory leak with conky, anyone else?
Message-ID:  <20071214072226.GA66388@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <64c038660712132056g3dec3142j633c452bda679e9f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <64c038660712132056g3dec3142j633c452bda679e9f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:56:25PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
> I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it
> links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet
> (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to
> what appears to be excessive. I did read the manual page about:
>=20
>    "Conky is generally very good on resources. However, certain objects  =
in
>     Conky  are  harder  on resources then others....If  you  do use them,
>     please do not complain about memory or CPU usage, unless you think
>     something's seriously wrong..."
>=20
> I am using those features, but I still think something is seriously

How does your .conkyrc look?

> wrong. The following is after running for 6.5 days:
>=20
> top;
>   PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>   791 Modulok      1  96    0   280M   278M select  42:37  0.00% conky

  41631 rsmith       1  44    0 27532K  5460K select  33:32  0.00% conky
=20
> ps -u;
>   USER      PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
>   Modulok   791  0.0 13.7 286708 284912  v0  S    Fri09AM  42:35.18 conky

     rsmith 41631  0.0  0.5 27532  5460  v0  S     3Dec07  33:31.68 conky -d

Fine here (FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 amd64)

Roland
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