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Darius Sartre

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03-30-2007 06:10

HHaven't had a chance to take a look at this in debug, but between client 1.13 and 1.14, something happened where the client it will perform slower and slower until it just halts. That's usually a sign of a memory leak in whatever the version changes were. I can't find an old copy of the 1.13 client so I can only compare performance based on memory. I can tell you that on the P4 machine I'm testing on, the 1.13 client worked as smooth as any other OS client but the new version isn't stable.

Zoha Boa

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03-30-2007 06:36

I have the same problem on a windows MCE machine.

In the beginning everything is fine; after a few hours it's slower and slower. The harddisk led is for 95% on and i have also a lot of packages lost (red lights upper right). When I reboot the computer everything is fine for some hours and then it starts over again.

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Drake Bacon

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03-30-2007 15:22

Do you have a system monitor (with CPU/Memory/Swap indicators) availible to you? I know KDE does.

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Zoha Boa

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03-30-2007 16:17

When the PC was almost crashed:
Process: SecondLife.exe: CPU usage: 87% - Memory 738.325K

All the other processes had allmost no activity, memory usage.

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Chihomi Yoshikawa

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03-30-2007 16:35

I've had some problems with memory leaks since 1.13 (and various betas) but as far as I can tell the leaks have reduced in 1.14...

Zoha Boa

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03-30-2007 18:26

I did 2 hours ago the update of the 30th and I still have the same problems.

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Honey Lean

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04-01-2007 13:57

I have the same problem with linux client version 14.0.1....
After 1 our all is slow......sometimes 2/3 ours....

With version 13 all was working good.....

Kerik Rau

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Join date: 8 Mar 2007

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04-04-2007 11:32

I will say that second life causes my machine to use swap for some reason, right now it is 650mb/1gb on swap and RAM usage will approach 1.5/2GB after awhile. It seems like linux considers some of the leak as inactive and just puts it in swap (either that or its the plethora of crashed SL windows :\ )

Darius Sartre

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Join date: 27 Oct 2005

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04-05-2007 07:45

Okay.... running 1.14.0.1 now. Still having the same issue of memory leaking. The only app running in my X11 is SecondLife. It's a P4, with 1G RAM, optimized X11 interface with fluxbox wm. vidcard is a Radeon 9200 I believe, maybe it's a 9600. I haven't looked in a while.

Usually use this for my development box, so there shouldn't be any issues with resources.

What's interesting is that, the memory leak happens to slow the client down enough that it still functions, but movement becomes chunky like it's skipping frames.

Fluf Fredriksson

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04-05-2007 12:58

A clue! A clue! Running 14.0.1 and I've spotted
oom-killer gfp_mask 0x....
in the system logs right at crash time.
That folks is an overcommitted memory deciding to dump out.
( http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer )
I'm running Debian testing kernel 2.6.15 and starting SL from a text shell with...
startx /usr/bin/twm ./secondlife (in the secondlife directory).
So I really doubt it's linked to anything but SL....
Is that any help to anyone?

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Darius Sartre Registered User Join date: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 2	03-30-2007 06:10 HHaven't had a chance to take a look at this in debug, but between client 1.13 and 1.14, something happened where the client it will perform slower and slower until it just halts. That's usually a sign of a memory leak in whatever the version changes were. I can't find an old copy of the 1.13 client so I can only compare performance based on memory. I can tell you that on the P4 machine I'm testing on, the 1.13 client worked as smooth as any other OS client but the new version isn't stable.
Zoha Boa Registered User Join date: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 2,893	03-30-2007 06:36 I have the same problem on a windows MCE machine. In the beginning everything is fine; after a few hours it's slower and slower. The harddisk led is for 95% on and i have also a lot of packages lost (red lights upper right). When I reboot the computer everything is fine for some hours and then it starts over again. _____________________ ZoHa Islands: SL Real Estate Management since 2007 Looking for land ? You will find it @ ZoHa Islands ! Orange Beach Mall: 50 000 sqm shopping fun http://slurl.com/secondlife/ZoHa%20Islands/222/227/27 website: http://www.ZoHa-Islands.com
Drake Bacon Linux is Furry Join date: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 443	03-30-2007 15:22 Do you have a system monitor (with CPU/Memory/Swap indicators) availible to you? I know KDE does. _____________________ Drake Bacon/Drake Winger Home: Custom AMD X2 (65nm) 5000+, 4 Gig RAM, Gentoo amd64, NVidia GeForce 8600GT PCIe Mobile: Dell Inspiron E1505 (Core Duo 1.6GHz, 1 gig RAM, Gentoo x86, NVidia GeForce Go 7300 PCIe) Backup: iMac (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 4 gig RAM, ATI Radeon HD 2400, MacOS X Leopard) Don't Ask: Asus EeePC 900A (Atom 1.6Ghz, 1 gig RAM, Intel graphics, Gentoo x86)
Zoha Boa Registered User Join date: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 2,893	03-30-2007 16:17 When the PC was almost crashed: Process: SecondLife.exe: CPU usage: 87% - Memory 738.325K All the other processes had allmost no activity, memory usage. _____________________ ZoHa Islands: SL Real Estate Management since 2007 Looking for land ? You will find it @ ZoHa Islands ! Orange Beach Mall: 50 000 sqm shopping fun http://slurl.com/secondlife/ZoHa%20Islands/222/227/27 website: http://www.ZoHa-Islands.com
Chihomi Yoshikawa Registered User Join date: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 5	03-30-2007 16:35 I've had some problems with memory leaks since 1.13 (and various betas) but as far as I can tell the leaks have reduced in 1.14...
Zoha Boa Registered User Join date: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 2,893	03-30-2007 18:26 I did 2 hours ago the update of the 30th and I still have the same problems. _____________________ ZoHa Islands: SL Real Estate Management since 2007 Looking for land ? You will find it @ ZoHa Islands ! Orange Beach Mall: 50 000 sqm shopping fun http://slurl.com/secondlife/ZoHa%20Islands/222/227/27 website: http://www.ZoHa-Islands.com
Honey Lean Registered User Join date: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 9	04-01-2007 13:57 I have the same problem with linux client version 14.0.1.... After 1 our all is slow......sometimes 2/3 ours.... With version 13 all was working good.....
Kerik Rau Registered User Join date: 8 Mar 2007 Posts: 54	04-04-2007 11:32 I will say that second life causes my machine to use swap for some reason, right now it is 650mb/1gb on swap and RAM usage will approach 1.5/2GB after awhile. It seems like linux considers some of the leak as inactive and just puts it in swap (either that or its the plethora of crashed SL windows :\ )
Darius Sartre Registered User Join date: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 2	04-05-2007 07:45 Okay.... running 1.14.0.1 now. Still having the same issue of memory leaking. The only app running in my X11 is SecondLife. It's a P4, with 1G RAM, optimized X11 interface with fluxbox wm. vidcard is a Radeon 9200 I believe, maybe it's a 9600. I haven't looked in a while. Usually use this for my development box, so there shouldn't be any issues with resources. What's interesting is that, the memory leak happens to slow the client down enough that it still functions, but movement becomes chunky like it's skipping frames.
Fluf Fredriksson Registered User Join date: 8 Feb 2007 Posts: 248	04-05-2007 12:58 A clue! A clue! Running 14.0.1 and I've spotted oom-killer gfp_mask 0x.... in the system logs right at crash time. That folks is an overcommitted memory deciding to dump out. ( http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer ) I'm running Debian testing kernel 2.6.15 and starting SL from a text shell with... startx /usr/bin/twm ./secondlife (in the secondlife directory). So I really doubt it's linked to anything but SL.... Is that any help to anyone?