Linux application crashes

[Bernard Devlin]

This sounds similar.
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7257

Not saying it is the same bug.  Just your description triggered a
familiar odour.

Bernard

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Glen Bojsza <gbojsza at gmail.com> wrote:
> My latest update / feedback on the issue...
>
> I tried monitoring the memory on the Centos 6.2 system with top -p $(pgrep
> Xorg) and watching the %MEM. It was really interesting and informative...
> when I launched the application I was down at 1.5% MEM and as I did
> database queries and plots I saw it increase between 0.3 and 0.5 % each
> time (This had several queries with large numbers of data).
>
> To address Tim's concern I stopped doing any graphing and solely did a
> series of import snapshots.
>

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> So essentially, going through this cycle several times showed the memory to
> start increasing approximately .7% each cycle. (this is where there are 20
> cards so 20 images)
>
> I increased the number of cards / images to 40 and the memory started to
> increase 1.2% each cycle!
>
> Never has the memory decreased.
>
> I removed ALL images and cards except for the intro card and the memory
> never decreased?!