Huge memory leak in Linux client (please add comments!)

A Linden guy said to start a new thread. I'm running 64-bit up to date Fedora Core 4
with the ATI fglrx module, and the latest client eats about 50Mb a **second**. Linden labs say that they can't reproduce and want to work out the common case between people. Can other people seeing it please post their configs.

The last client I tried, SecondLife_i686_1_11_3_1, was fine. [corrected for comment]

If you need to confirm that it's the same issue, run 'top' and look for the client
which is called 'do_not_directly...'. Look for the size of the VIRT and RES fields. The
RES value is what matters most, if you see that increasing fast and never settling
down, you have the problem.

I'm not sure which version you are referring to. 1.12.3.6 is the latest one AFAIK, or did you mean the preview client?

Thanks, getting common data from those affected will be very useful.

I've turned everything right down to lowest detail to see if things changed. Indeed
it seems to grow slightly slower but still quickly reaches 1.4Gb RES (around the point
where my machine starts swapping hard). Is there other options I can try?

Same issue here. As soon as I log in the memory usage "explodes". It reaches a point where my computer becomes completely unusable, with the hdd running constantly.

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I discovered that this solution helped me: /263/8e/146304/1.html

Enable LL_GL_NOEXT in the secondlife script. I lost the nice textures on the ground like this. But it works now.

For me, setting that variable fixes the problem too, using the new 13_0_8 preview client.

In the new client, you can turn off GL features one by one, using the "a-o" options.

The line is:

#export LL_GL_BLACKLIST=abcdefghijklmno

It would be interesting if someone with the memory leak would try this

But I did the aticonfig trick suggested, and all of them seem fine now...