>> Please file bugs with your distros. Feel free to email to me the bug >> numbers in private mail (in a new thread, not a reply here) so that I >> can triage them. > > Can't :( The bug reporting tool is broken LOL. Generally if I just > put up with it for a few weeks and update fixes it but breaks other > stuff. I've got a Fedora Bugzilla account, should I report it there > manually or is there a different bugzilla acount, I think I had or > still have a KDE bugzilla account. > Fedora and *buntu have online bug reporting tools. The *buntu one is hard to find without going through literally three pages of docs, here it is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect Debian might be a problem, I know. >> Which distro? Which apps? I have not had this issue with KDE, though >> Firefox has a huge memory leak. > > Fedora 12 KDE 4.4.1 Downloading an update right now that moves me to 4.4.2 > Firefox is probably the top culprit since I have MANY Firefox windows > open for weeks at a time. Sadly they had the mem leak mostly fixed in > 3.5.x but 3.6.x is almost as bad as 2.x was with the mem leaks :( I'm > not certain which apps but Kwrite I am very suspcious of having a Mem > leak., The various Kwrite windows I have open are using a combined 15 > megs of ram over 6 windows most of which contain maybe a paragraph or > two. When I get about 20 open it does evil things to my memory. One of > the reasons I miss Kedit so much. Pulse audio appears to have one also > as it takes way more mem than a sound server should after it's been > running for a few weeks. Right now a few days after launching it's > already up to .3 megs. The Plasma desktop seems to be another. Right > now it's using up 13 megs of ram which seems high to me. I'll watch > and see if it grows any over the next day or two. Kwin is another I'm > suspicious of. It's right now one of my top 10 in mem usage at 4.6 > megs but I havn't closed anything or opened any new windows in last > hour or so. > It looks to me that you are using Qt4 apps (KDE 4), Qt3 apps (Kwrite) and GTK apps (Firefox). That will be difficult on your system, no doubt. I hope that you don't open an OpenOffice window with all that going on! > There are a couple non-KDE apps I'm also suspicious of, Evolution is > one of them. Keep meaning to change my default mail client to Kmail as > I hate Evolution and the army of child processes it spawns. > > >> Again, this is a distro issue. Does PA or Jack work better under >> Gnome? I honestly don't know too much about the sound systems, but I >> did not realize they were so dependant on the desktop environment. > > Jack except on Fedora seems to work decently or at least works mostly > with Gnome. On Fedora it's a real chore to get it to work under any > desktop. No idea why Jack hates Fedora or vice versa. On Ubuntu Jack > usually works in Gnome but rarely works or if it actually works will > work for long under KDE. At least 3.x still need to upgrade my laptop > to see. I might get 20 mins into an editing session and suddenly the > sound goes out. At least Jack does. If a system bell or anything else > makes a peep I can count on Jack going bye bye until I restart KDE. I > can try installing Jack on this machine but it's Fedora so it'll > probably not work. > Please file bugs at Ubuntu on this. I don't use of know Jack, so I cannot help, but this list might help you: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-Studio-devel -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.