Bug 675447 - rabbitvcs checker is 500MB which seems quite excessive for a "helper"
Summary: rabbitvcs checker is 500MB which seems quite excessive for a "helper"
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rabbitvcs
Version: 13
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Juan Manuel Rodriguez
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-05 17:49 UTC by Wendell Baker
Modified: 2011-06-27 12:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 12:19:27 UTC
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The error message ... as seen (18.54 KB, image/png)
2011-02-06 00:17 UTC, Wendell Baker
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Description Wendell Baker 2011-02-05 17:49:04 UTC
Description of problem:

Over time the machine gets slow and bogged down.  Many processes leak core and have to be restarted (firefox, thunderbird, nautilus).  This process is one of the top ten big ones.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rpm -q -f /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rabbitvcs/services/checkers/loopedchecker.pyc
rabbitvcs-core-0.13.3-1.fc13.noarch


How reproducible:

yes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login to gnome in 2010-12
2. use nautilus to move around vast and trivial directories
3. nautilus comes and goes (crashes)
4. rabbitvcs is in the background
5. observe the size of rabbitvcs
  
Actual results:

See 500MB

Expected results:

A lot less than that.  ~100MB seems to be a going rate for "helper" processes.

Additional info:

See process 21153

$ ps -lef | sort -n -k 10 | tail -n 6
0 S wbaker   22568     1  0  80   0 - 99165 poll_s 07:52 ?        00:00:26 xsane
0 S wbaker   22013     1  0  80   0 - 99985 poll_s Jan16 ?        00:34:47 gedit
0 S wbaker   21153 21152  0  80   0 - 141992 pipe_w Jan03 ?       00:00:43 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rabbitvcs/services/checkers/loopedchecker.pyc
0 S wbaker    9673 22073  0  80   0 - 147914 poll_s Feb02 ?       00:12:55 nautilus --sm-client-id 1010eaf64f6a8dd0f9128356862072663400000265000049 --sm-client-state-file /home/wbaker/.config/session-state/nautilus-1288011599.state
0 S wbaker   28342 28324 25  80   0 - 218295 poll_s 09:05 ?       00:08:41 /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox
0 S wbaker   21331 21327  6  80   0 - 290499 poll_s 07:43 ?       00:07:42 /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1/thunderbird-bin


$ bc
scale=6
141992*4096/1024^3
.541656

SZ= ~550MB



I am unclear if I can just "kill & restart" this process.  That would be a fine remediation here.  The python code says ...
"""
Convenience script for performing status checks in a separate process. This
script is NOT meant to be run from the command line - the results are sent over
stdout as a byte stream (ie. the pickled results of the status check).
"""

I wish to be able to remediate this memory leak without logging out.

Comment 1 Wendell Baker 2011-02-06 00:17:08 UTC
Created attachment 477259 [details]
The error message ... as seen

Comment 2 Juan Manuel Rodriguez 2011-02-15 18:19:59 UTC
Hey Wendell, I just updated RabbitVCS's packages to 0.14.1.1 (As of this writing they haven't landed on updates-testing on f14 yet, but it shouldn't be long until they do). [1]

Large Memory Usage, reported here[2] hasn't been fixed, but one of the side effects, Nautilus lockups, has. Speed's also greatly improved in 0.14.1.1 (I've been using it for several weeks now). 

I'd love it if you helped me test these packages. Thanks!

[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rabbitvcs-0.14.1.1-1.fc14
[2] https://code.google.com/p/rabbitvcs/issues/detail?id=90

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