Cinnamon's memory usage

[AlbertP]

You can follow the Cinnamon development on https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon. Pull request #595 fixes a memory leak but isn't yet pulled.

[Therion87]

You can follow the Cinnamon development on https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon. Pull request #595 fixes a memory leak but isn't yet pulled.

Thanks for the info

[AlbertP]

Just for information, #595 is just pulled so this (small) leak will be fixed in Mint 13.

[Therion87]

Is there any word on the Expo memory leak being pulled? For the next version of Cinnamon.

[zer0nix]

does this problem still exist in linuxmint 13 or has it been resolved? a lot of newer threads still indicate that mate feels faster than cinnamon but i'm not seeing any mention of a taskbar responsiveness issue.

[AlbertP]

Yes, my commits fixing a leak aren't in mint 13 yet. But they may end up there as an update.

[Kelley_Green]

Still not fixed in LM13 I see.

[Shakelikee]

According to the System monitor I am using 1.3 gigs of RAM. I am not. Anyone got any idea why?

[Talence]

My Cinnamon usage is currently in the range of 3.3GB. It makes the system unworkable.

I've installed all updates via the regular package manager, but still have this problem.

Is there any progress on fixing this leak?

My distro is Linux Mint 13 Maya, 64 bits.

[AlbertP]

@ Shakelikee: By default only your user processes are shown, no system processes and processes by other users. You can use the View menu on the top of System Monitor to see them.

@ Talente, is 3.3GB the memory usage of your whole system? Then please look at Processes what the memory usage of just the "cinnamon" process is (for example in Shakelikee's screenshot above your post, it's 38MiB). If "cinnamon" still has a high memory usage please try upgrading to Cinnamon 1.6: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2177

[vayth]

wow.. I thought I'm the only one with this strangeness..

I'm using mint 14, and cinnamon took about 200MB..
I thought it was notmal.. but when I tried to install Unity, compiz only took about 100MB (with all lens etc, maybe about 150 total)
That's when I feel weird, since people always said unity is heavy..
launching mint menu also gives me a brief lag about 1 sec,while it took me instantly when launching unity dash..

maybe I did something wrong with my installation?

sorry for bumping old topic, since I'm not sure whether to create a new one, and the last post isn't 6 month old yet..

[oddhack]

Cinnamon is making my computer unusable at the moment. It was fine until a couple of weeks ago. Not sure what I've done to deserve this.
When I log in, everything seems fine, but within a minute or two cinnamon's %MEM in htop has gone up to 40% or so, and the VIRT column climbs to nearly 8000MB. Then a minute or two later, the %MEM goes to 80+ and then the VIRT goes to 15.9GB and turns red. Then everything goes very s l o w l y.
Everything else in htop seems fine.

I'm on Nadia 64bit and have 4GB of actual RAM plus 8GB swap partition.

Any ideas?

[thinkit_1]

Just for information, #595 is just pulled so this (small) leak will be fixed in Mint 13.

With respect to Cinnamon's memory usage issue, I'm seeing the same as others: increase memory usage as a function of time. Restarting cinnamon gets me back to around 64MB (easy enough hack). Currently using LMDE 2013-03 and cinnamon 1.72. The memory issues was present in both the default 1.67 and after upgrading to 1.72 from debian sid.

You stated that #595 addresses a 'small' leak. I would classify what it more like a 'large' \:\) leak. When do you anticipate a fix for this bug(s).

Thanks much for the updates.

[AlbertP]

That issue #595 mentioned by me was about another memory leak present long ago; it fixed that one leak but there may be other leaks or similar problems remaining.