Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC rsvg-convert

[Rapael Morcha]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:33:12PM +1100, newcr wrote:
> Thanks Rapael
>
> Did the following
> free -m
> top
> shift    and    <
>
> rsvg-convert came up as using 90% of memory. When killed, got control of PC 
> again.

Hey newcr,

Looks like a tool from librsvg package -
"The librsvg package contains librsvg libraries and tools used to manipulate, convert and view Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images." 

Depends whether you are doing anything like that above (i.e., image conversion) 

>
> Will check again next time the PC freezes up to make sure. Then try to work 
> out what to do about it.

If it (rsvg-convert) always does that (suck up lot of memory and freeze your system) and you do not use that package try removing it-

raphael at f9:[~] sudo apt-get remove librsvg2-bin;
<type root password>

[librsvg2-bin includes rsvg-convert tool]

If you do use that package however, consider filing a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net on librsvg2-bin. Maybe it's leaking memory it shouldn't. #_#

-- 
Cheers,
Raphael.