Ubuntu 11.04 and gitk problem

[John Johansen]

On 05/14/2011 02:39 PM, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:23 AM, John Johansen
> <john.johansen at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 05/14/2011 11:09 PM, Anca Emanuel wrote:
>>> Hi, all.
>>>
>>> I try to run gitk from command line.
>>>
>>> Steps to reproduce:
>>> 1. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>>> 2. cd linux-2.6
>>> 3. gitk
>>>
>>> I can not run it. That kills my system (2GB RAM) and Unity as well.
>>> Any ideeas ?
>>>
>> gitk is rather memory intensive, when I do gitk at the root of the kernel tree it
>> has an RSS of 1.6 GB which will push a 2 GB machine well into swap and will likely
>> cause the oom killer to run
>>
>> You should try pruning what you are looking at by either specifying a path
>>  eg. gitk fs/ext4/
> 
> Tryied, and the same result.
> Unity get killed, and I log on again.

does it work if you log in under the classic desktop?