When I start checkgmail it immediately gobbles up enough memory to make my system lag (53% of my 1GB, by `top') - if you'll tell me how, I'll be happy to provide debugging output. I'm running v1.13-3 from the Ubuntu Intrepid universe repos.
Same problem here, suddenly one day after working perfectly the day before, de both instances that I run of checkgmail for GMail and Entreprise Site doesn't load correctly an the program gets around 1 GB of RAM each.
Finally I resolve the problem deleting file lang.xml that you could find in your home inside folder .checkgmail
This file has 192539416 Bytes size
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I can confirm the memory leak problem with checkgmail. I am currently running
PCLinuxOS, and checkgmail is locking up my 1.6 GHz Centrino
processor with 98-100% CPU usage, and consuming extraordinarily large
chunks of available user memory (between 75-85% ... I have 1 GB
installed on this computer). A SuperKaramba widget that monitors the top
memory usage by programs shows that X keeps consuming more and more
memory when checkgmail is running. Most of the time, the only way to get
back control of my computer is to restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc). The longer
my computer sits idle, the worse the problem is.
Hopefully, this information is useful in finding the memory leak. As it
is, I can no longer use checkgmail, despite it otherwise being a very
nice program that fills in the void left by no Linux version of Gmail-
Notifier, as in Windows.
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I can confirm this bug. checkgmail regularly transforms itself into a memory devourer (~25% of my 2Gb laptop) and the only way to make it back to normal is to delete the ~/.checkgmail directory, which works for a few days only before it starts eating RAM again. Version is 1.13svn.
elKano
PS: I had this problem right now. I removed only prefs.xml, it still took to much memory. I erased lang.xml and all went well. Since it works again now, I can't do anymore tests until next time.
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I've got the same problem. It started recently after running fine for months.
Version 1.13 on Gentoo with a `checkgmail -update` on 2009-01-14.
In reply to my own comment above (nobody):
I've deleted my ~/.checkgmail folder and started checkgmail again. Seems to be relatively sane again.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
29262 user 20 0 95776 59m 22m S 0 1.8 0:07.55 checkgmail
Same problem here, suddenly one day after working perfectly the day before, de both instances that I run of checkgmail for GMail and Entreprise Site doesn't load correctly an the program gets around 1 GB of RAM each.
Finally I resolve the problem deleting file lang.xml that you could find in your home inside folder .checkgmail
This file has 192539416 Bytes size
I can confirm the memory leak problem with checkgmail. I am currently running
PCLinuxOS, and checkgmail is locking up my 1.6 GHz Centrino
processor with 98-100% CPU usage, and consuming extraordinarily large
chunks of available user memory (between 75-85% ... I have 1 GB
installed on this computer). A SuperKaramba widget that monitors the top
memory usage by programs shows that X keeps consuming more and more
memory when checkgmail is running. Most of the time, the only way to get
back control of my computer is to restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc). The longer
my computer sits idle, the worse the problem is.
Hopefully, this information is useful in finding the memory leak. As it
is, I can no longer use checkgmail, despite it otherwise being a very
nice program that fills in the void left by no Linux version of Gmail-
Notifier, as in Windows.
I can confirm this bug. checkgmail regularly transforms itself into a memory devourer (~25% of my 2Gb laptop) and the only way to make it back to normal is to delete the ~/.checkgmail directory, which works for a few days only before it starts eating RAM again. Version is 1.13svn.
elKano
PS: I had this problem right now. I removed only prefs.xml, it still took to much memory. I erased lang.xml and all went well. Since it works again now, I can't do anymore tests until next time.
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Hi all , we are still affected by this bug in Ubuntu please note
https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkgmail/+bug/382267
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