Re: gitk with the latest branch makes the system unusable for some time

From: Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2011, 18:20 UTC
Message-ID: <C89C2D5B-9DD7-42FD-8CB5-E33EDC919DEE@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110224164551.GD888@home.goodmis.org>

On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

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> Hi Justin,
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:53:08PM -0800, Justin Mattock wrote:
>> not sure if there is any reports of this or not, basically using gitk
>> on my macbookpro2,2 makes the system extremely slow and unusable
>> (after a while can finally use the system)
>>
>> in dmesg I am seeing this:
>>
>
>
>> [ 6089.367430] [ 2593]  1000  2593    26616        1   1       0
>>      0 bash
>> [ 6089.367435] [ 2717]  1000  2717   326078   204267   0       0
>>      0 wish
>> [ 6089.367439] [ 2729]  1000  2729   141207     7349   0       0
>>      0 git
>> [ 6089.367444] Out of memory: Kill process 2717 (wish) score 802 or
>> sacrifice child
>
> Looks like a memory leak in gitk and nothing to do with the kernel. I
> would take this up with them.
>
> -- Steve
>

cool... I haven't had a chance yet to upgrade git(external things in life) but once I get to it I will, and see.

Thanks

Justin P. Mattock