system crash
Hello,
Just previously, while viewing high resolution images in gqview,
my computer completely crashed (nothing worked, no network, mouse pointer
didn't move, no keys did anything, etc). I had to cold reset my
computer.
In my log file, I saw the following suspicious message:
Sep 24 11:28:55 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Sep 24 11:30:10 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate...
Sep 24 11:35:42 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Sep 24 11:35:53 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for panel...
Sep 24 11:36:16 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm...
Sep 24 11:40:06 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Sep 24 11:41:54 snoopy kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
which, to me, might suggest a low memory problem. Is this analysis
correct?
However, I have 128Mb real ram on this computer:
snoopy# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 128216 120880 7336 123764 6800 48280
-/+ buffers/cache: 65800 62416
Swap: 192740 552 192188
So, if I really did run out of memory, there must be a serious memory
leak somewhere...
According to my tests, gqview seems to leak memory like anything[1], but
I would be surprised if it use 62Mb+192Mb...
I have:
snoopy# dpkg -l gqview kernel-source-2.2.17
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii gqview 0.7.0e1-1 A simple image viewer using GTK+
ii kernel-source- 2.2.17pre6-1 Linux kernel source for version 2.2.17
(of course I compiled the kernel:
snoopy# uname -a
Linux snoopy 2.2.17 #1 Wed Jul 5 17:57:21 EST 2000 i686 unknown
)
[1] changing to another image, in full screen mode, uses approx 3Mb
more memory. This memory is never freed, until the program exits. The
images are 1152x864 24bit (?) jpeg files, under 200kb each
(compressed).
Are there any good X-based full screen image viewing programs that
don't leak memory?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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