general schvantzkoph

Has anyone else noticed a massive memory leak in Acrobat 7, it chews up
about a gigabyte a day on my systems? I'm running it on FC3/Gnome. Someone
on a Acrobat forum (don't know if they were from Adobe) tried to blame it
on the theme which seems ridiculous to me because Acrobat is the only
program that exhibits this problem. Never the less I tried switching from
Crux to Bluecurve, made no difference of course.

spamless

What video card do you have?

lenard

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerupdate082005.html


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jean-david beyer

By memory leak, do you mean you leave it running and it takes more and more
memory? Or do you mean that even when it exits, it does not return the
memory it has allocated to the system? In either case, I have never noticed
this, though I run Acrobat (reader) 7 a lot. I do not seem to be leaking
memory even though my system has not been rebooted in a couple of months
(when I took it down to run memtest86 to look for curious behavior that I
forget; did not find the problem whatever it was).

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general schvantzkoph

I mean it keeps taking on more and more memory the longer it's left open,
when you close it the memory is released. The rate of memory consumption
is large, at least a 100MB/hour.

Are you using KDE or Gnome?

general schvantzkoph

I think that's another different bug. I downloaded the latest version of
Acrobat a few days ago, the memory leak I'm seeing was in the original 7.0
and it's in the current 7.01

jean-david beyer

GNOME/metacity

I have 4 GBytes RAM, but I do not see the amount used increasing, even with
xosview that distinguishes between Used+Shar, Buff, Cache, Free.

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general schvantzkoph

I see the memory size increasing by 20M every time I drop down a menu, any
menu. I don't have to select an item the very act of dropping down the
menu causes it to grab another 20M.

general schvantzkoph

GeForce FX 5700

jean-david beyer

I just tried that and it grows way less than 20M, and drops most of the way
back when I let go of the dropdown. Since other processes are running that
allocate and free memory, I guess this is inconclusive, but if it is
happening to me, the effects are small.

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