memory leak

[Michael Zanetti]

Not having looked into what exactly uses it, but after keeping unity8 running over night, it consumes over 5GB of memory.

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

curious - is this zesty? or xenial+overlay?
also, is this debs or snaps?

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

I observed this with x+o, deb based.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Try a heap profiler. The problem with high memory usage is that it's often just indefinitely bloat and not a permanent 'leak'. This means the program still has enough smarts to free it all on shutdown and no leak checker will tell you what the problem was. But while it's running it's still too big. So use a heap profiler...

http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/ms-manual.html
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse326/05wi/valgrind-doc/ms_main.html