Ubuntu 11.04 and gitk problem

[John Johansen]

On 05/15/2011 10:49 AM, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John Johansen
> <john.johansen at canonical.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> 
> No.
> I tried also Classic Desktop No Effects. That was different: I need to
> press the reset button from my PC.
> 
> It was working in Ubuntu 10.10. Not perfect, but I used it.

another experiments,

can you install a maverick kernel into your natty environment and boot from and try gitk
with that.