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Memory usage increasing over time
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Description
* Cinnamon 3.4.6
* Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
* Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] bus-ID: 00:01.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1200@59.95hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.10.0-32-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
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Memory usage increasing over time
Steps to reproduce
Memory increases slowly the more time is running
Expected behaviour
No memory increasing
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Research direction
Reproduce the memory increase on Cinnamon 3.4.6 with Linux Mint 18.2 while monitoring usage over time. Narrow the report to the affected process or component and establish a repeatable case; done means memory no longer steadily increases during the same workload.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, linux
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100