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aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« on: November 24, 2009, 11:09:35 AM »

Well, only 4gb, cause that’s all I have, but it would use everything no matter how much I had.

Every time it loses the connection, it starts expanding in RAM until computer is no longer usable.
I am looking either for:
1. A way to make aMule stop doing that
2. A script that will kill it when it reaches 50% of memory
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 11:11:05 AM »

Version? Platform? Logfile?
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 11:12:49 AM »

Version? Platform? Logfile?
aMule 2.2.6.
Ubuntu 64bit
I dont have a logfile with crash right now, but I doubt there would be anuthing other than "Cannot connect to server".
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2009, 02:23:33 PM »

Distro or self-compiled? Which Ubuntu version?
Please post the log file when it happens again. (Remove references to file real names first.)
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 02:35:18 PM »

It is Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 64bit. Customized but none of the changes touches amule.
I will post the log when it happens, but in the mean time could you speculate? I take it that's not a common problem?
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2009, 05:10:32 PM »

It's not common, unless you have an upload speed of > 1MB / s or so.
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2009, 05:18:39 PM »

Not really. My upload is capped at 100kb/s. As I said, however, it only happens then there is no internet connection for few mintues. Then, memory leak starts and after 5-10 minutes it takesover 4gb of ram.
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2009, 10:46:40 PM »

You know how to run valgrind? That could be interesting.
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2009, 04:17:43 AM »

It is Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 64bit. Customized but none of the changes touches amule.
99% sure this is a known bug in libx11. Update your Ubuntu version or apply this patch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=da6bbca07c796c69172a649405474f03bee66754
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2009, 10:17:28 AM »

I have logs from when it happened, but they show nothing:

2009-11-24 20:17:12: Finished downloading: some file.zip
2009-11-24 22:23:24: Connected to Kad (firewalled)
2009-11-24 22:23:24: Connected to Kad (ok)


I cannot update my ubuntu to Koala cause I would lose too much of my customization.
« Last Edit: November 25, 2009, 11:18:22 AM by wuischke »
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2009, 11:21:08 AM »

Mh, I haven't used Ubuntu for a while, but in my experience a dist-upgrade doesn't impact customizations unreasonably. Do you speak from experience or do you fear it might screw things up?

On a side note: Please do not post potentially copyrighted file names here.
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2009, 11:47:43 AM »

Sorry about the filename. It eluded me.

I installed my 64bit 9.04 about seven months ago and since then I made loads of modifications to it, ranging from power saving tweaks to replacing nautilus with pcmanfm (also as desktop manager). I upgraded kernel, configured exotic hardware, replaced a lot of the default software, after long struggle managed to make hibernation and microphone work, even made office 2003 work in 80% of cases. Overall, only after I made many, many, many things to it, I was somewhat comfortable with it being my main operating system.

When I tried upgrading to Koala, I saw it wanted to remove/install a lot of programs I customized/don't want. Hence my question - can I upgrade this lib without going Koala?
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2009, 01:22:13 PM »

Yes, you can re-compile the package with the patch.

This works more or less like this:
1. Download source packages [1] and [2].
2. Extract the orig.tar.gz file, chdir into the resulting directory and execute zcat ../libx11_1.1.99.2-1ubuntu2.diff.gz | patch -p1 to prepare the debian package structure.
3. Download and apply the patch btkaos referred to [3]
4. Try to build the package with "dpkg-buildpackage". It will complain about missing packages, install these packages and try again.
5. Install the resulting deb file.

From my experience (I used Ubuntu from ca. 2005-2006), upgrades work more or less without affecting customizations. Usually it will mark files which will get overwritten with a comment inside the configuration file. But it's probably better to wait for 10.04 and upgrade to a LTS version.
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2009, 01:09:58 PM »

I cannot update my ubuntu to Koala cause I would lose too much of my customization.
Then recompile the package.

The easiest way is:
  • Download the dsc file from packages ubuntu com
  • Download the patch and save it to xlib-fix.patch
  • $ dget -x $dsc file
  • $ cd xlib...
  • $ cat ../xlib-fix.patch | patch -p1
  • $ sudo apt-get build-deps xlib
  • $ dpkg-buildpackage
  • $ install the debs

[As a side note, you may preserve your customizations in the upgrade, but you'll have to use aptitude to do it and a little bit of care]
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Re: aMule is taking 16GB of RAM
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2009, 11:28:02 PM »

wuischke
I don't know how to apply this patch from point 3.

btkaos
What dsc file are you referring to? There are many libx11 packages and I don't know which one should I download.
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