gconfd-2 memory usage is HUGE (100M!)

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 26 16:41:19 UTC 2007


Mike Harding wrote:
> I still have problems with gconfd chewing up insane amounts of memory.
> It's currently 100 M, 92 M resident.  Is there any way to diagnose
> what's going on?  Is this possibly being driven by my use of
> Evolution, which is hanging in there about 112M (50M resident)?

You could try setting malloc ktrace trace points, and running ktrace on 
it to see where the memory is going.  I'm not seeing anything strange 
here, so it may be due to some bad gconf XML files.

Joe

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