[Opera-Linux] Here's something else unusual

[Daniel Eckl]

2009/7/1 Kenneth Crudup <kenny at panix.com>:
>
> 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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>

I feared you would take that as a blame, despite I said it's not.
There's nothing I can do against that, it's your opinion and it's your
right to think so.

I'm sorry that you don't want to try the radical approach. That means
that the wild guessing will take on. Sadly I don't have the time to
walk this way with you all.

Best,
Daniel