[Opera-Linux] Here's something else unusual

[Kenneth Crudup]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Daniel Eckl wrote:

> One thing I notice in general: You have an incredible amount of very
> unusual configurations and settings.

Eh?! Nothing I've got on this box is much of "unusual" at all. (A symlink
ain't "unusual".)

Besides, none of this should make a difference to a *web browser*, though.

Firefox doesn't suffer. No other programs suffer like this. I can run
memory- and image-intensive programs like the GIMP, "gqview" (on a
directory with 31000 images and its associated thumbnails), all
manner of video viewers, and can even have a VMWare running a full-blown
install of Windows XP running while all this is going on and NOTHING
will consume THREE GIGABYTES of *resident* RAM save Opera.

> My goal is to rule out if it's opera itself when it renders all your
> tabs (in that case, the problem should re-appear on that setup too),
> or some of the unusual system tweaks you use, which triggers an opera
> bug (in that case the bug would be gone on the test system).

Last night I started Opera on a clean -personaldir and carried over one
of my saved sessions *only* and it ended up leaking memory like a sieve
after about 2 hrs, and eventually stopped loading sites altogether 'cause
it was up to 2200 open files.

This system is essentially a stock Ubuntu system that gets its updates
from the normal Ubuntu update channels.

Don't see how it's anything on my end, esp. since I keep trying all kinds
of different things and Opera still uses lots and lots of memory and file-
descriptors.

	-Kenny, who needs to send over one of those session files, BTW

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