Monthly News – February 2021
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- antikythera
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Re: Monthly News – February 2021
A big thank you to those responsible for fixing the historic memory leak in cinnamon/nemo. It was the only major bugbear I have been persistently dealing with as I use USB drives a fair amount. My Ctrl+Alt+Esc keys salute you too
However, I wholeheartedly agree with Nick's well worded comment about the concept of limiting memory usage in Cinnamon 5.0
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4037#comment-185763
However, I wholeheartedly agree with Nick's well worded comment about the concept of limiting memory usage in Cinnamon 5.0
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4037#comment-185763
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Re: Monthly News – February 2021
Well, I think limiting Cinnamon's memory usage (automatic restart after reaching the configured max) is a pretty neat workaround.... If it can't be done the way it should, it should be done the way it can. A workaround, but an elegant one.
I'll certainly use it myself, and I'll probably recommend it on my website as well.
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- antikythera
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Re: Monthly News – February 2021
Maybe if it Cinnamon isn't working properly it will be handy for inexperienced users to set and forget the limit but now they've patched some of the problematic processes it is consistently between 67-75 MiB on my NVIDIA machine and no longer skyrockets when after I use a USB drive with Timeshift or just nemo. The reason it's been associated with Timeshift is nemo automatically mounting USB volumes I reckon.
I'm glad it can be configured by end users or disabled (if it's enabled by default on the relevant ISO it will eventually ship on). The lower limit for the RAM setting I trust will be a sensible one.
this is top, chromium and boinc are running but as you can see RAM usage is well within acceptable limits and I have been plugging in and removing USB HDD on and off most of the day for different tasks. I did restart to check if the Plymouth update screwed anything up just under 5 hours ago but have used USB drives again since. I've not once used Ctrl+Alt+Esc since the nemo and cinnamon updates were applied.
I'm glad it can be configured by end users or disabled (if it's enabled by default on the relevant ISO it will eventually ship on). The lower limit for the RAM setting I trust will be a sensible one.
this is top, chromium and boinc are running but as you can see RAM usage is well within acceptable limits and I have been plugging in and removing USB HDD on and off most of the day for different tasks. I did restart to check if the Plymouth update screwed anything up just under 5 hours ago but have used USB drives again since. I've not once used Ctrl+Alt+Esc since the nemo and cinnamon updates were applied.
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michael@GA-AM1M-S2H:~$ top
top - 00:16:39 up 4:43, 1 user, load average: 4.40, 3.54, 3.05
Tasks: 208 total, 5 running, 203 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.4 us, 11.1 sy, 53.9 ni, 33.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 15952.6 total, 12374.1 free, 1411.3 used, 2167.2 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 2048.0 total, 2048.0 free, 0.0 used. 14168.0 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1146 boinc 39 19 168804 73904 2572 R 64.2 0.5 135:59.03 wcgrid_+
19199 boinc 39 19 167000 101504 2028 R 64.2 0.6 33:36.92 wcgrid_+
1147 boinc 39 19 75252 74488 2392 R 63.9 0.5 134:42.70 wcgrid_+
1145 boinc 39 19 75172 74308 2392 R 63.6 0.5 133:22.28 wcgrid_+
19821 michael 20 0 5387140 126464 90012 S 3.0 0.8 1:12.31 chromium
20017 michael 20 0 5372780 114520 83868 S 1.7 0.7 0:09.20 chromium
853 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 1.0 0.0 2:23.34 irq/44-+
19759 michael 20 0 2593672 216088 146108 S 1.0 1.3 0:25.91 chromium
533 boinc 30 10 112252 19000 14292 S 0.7 0.1 0:56.01 boinc
20171 michael 20 0 11896 4240 3488 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.12 top
17518 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:11.28 kworker+
19149 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:01.64 kworker+
19688 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:03.04 kworker+
20158 michael 20 0 463528 39656 31036 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.52 gnome-t+
1 root 20 0 167508 11848 8660 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.45 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd
3 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_gp
michael@GA-AM1M-S2H:~$
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Re: Monthly News – February 2021
Regarding memory leak in Cinnamon, problem exists across Intel and AMD cpus, I have seen no connection to nemo, and both machines have no discrete GPU but only on-board graphics. I have Conky reporting over 92% usage by Cinnamon of memory before crashing Cinnamon (8Gb systems). Ctrl-alt-backspace causes fallback after short delay, then a repeat reloads Cinnamon, often without the leak. Systems run fine as long as they preserve up-time by only suspending thereafter. Problems generally occur within 30min of a restart.
Looking forward to Cinnamon 5.0 with memory usage limits!
Looking forward to Cinnamon 5.0 with memory usage limits!