Bug 190265

Summary:	The zen updater suite devours my memory
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Ioannis Manoloudis <manoloudis4linux>
Component:	Zenworks	Assignee:	Chris Rivera <crivera>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mauro Parra Miranda <mauro>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke, ludwig, suse-beta
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
Whiteboard:	POST FCS PATCH
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	my process table And some running stats

Description Ioannis Manoloudis 2006-07-04 10:48:41 UTC

As I am running the zen updater to browse and download updates and additional software to install, the processes zen-installer, zmd and zen-updater take more than 1GB of total memory.
I have taken two screenshots of the ksysguard where you can see the problem.
I'll upload them soon.
Ioannis

Comment 1 Ioannis Manoloudis 2006-07-04 10:51:00 UTC

Created attachment 92534 [details]
my process table

As you can see, the zmd suite takes nearly 2 GB of total memory.

Comment 2 Ioannis Manoloudis 2006-07-04 10:52:11 UTC

Created attachment 92535 [details]
And some running stats

Here are some running stats from ksysguard.

Comment 3 Christoph Ludwig 2006-07-10 13:32:08 UTC

I can confirm this problem. On Sunday, I had to kill resolve-dependencies; today, i had to kill update-status. Both occupied all available physical and swap space and thus caused the system to crawl. This is on a production server, so I need to do something about is as soon as possible  - even if this means I have to install another distro.

I don't know if it helps the developers to pinpoint the problem or if it is a distraction, but I also experience the problem described in bug 175150.

Comment 4 Chris Rivera 2006-07-11 22:29:01 UTC

The first screenshot you posted only shows vm size, which isn't what you want.  RSS is what really matters.  I'm working on memory profiling for the GUI tools at the moment.  There are definitely improvements that can be made, but this is an on-going thing that we are always trying to improve.  As for resolve-dependencies and update-status these are ZYPP helpers that are run by zmd.  There are plenty of bugs open about their poor performance.

Comment 5 Federico Lucifredi 2006-10-11 22:21:08 UTC

the performace bugs are tracked in other items. Closing this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205164 ***