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Bug 587387 - Using animated background .xml uses all the ram
Using animated background .xml uses all the ram
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 587388
Product: gnome-desktop
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: High critical
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Assigned To: Desktop Maintainers
Desktop Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-30 04:39 UTC by Sven von Brand
Modified: 2009-06-30 05:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Sven von Brand 2009-06-30 04:39:03 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. make an .xml that uses many images for an animation in a short time
2. set as background
3. wait


Stack trace:
make the pc crash, xorg starts using very high amount of ram

Other information:
make the pc crash, xorg starts using very high amount of ram
even after changing the background the ram isn't liberated
Comment 1 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2009-06-30 04:44:58 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused it.
Can you get us a stack trace? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so. Thanks in advance!
Comment 2 Sven von Brand 2009-06-30 05:13:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
> Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused
> it.
> Can you get us a stack trace? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces
> for more information on how to do so. Thanks in advance!
> 

I don't know how, actually, because my pc runs out of ram and that makes everything crash. What's the program updating the background? I now found out that's this is a more general bug, I've filed this bug under:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587388
and I will mark this one as a duplicate.
Comment 3 Sven von Brand 2009-06-30 05:14:14 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 587388 ***