Review Request: Fixing massive memory consumption in KWin using the raster graphicssystem.

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This review has been submitted with commit 66b2cc4d31e380e3b2bc7e47477029fc39fb7ac7 by Philipp Knechtges to branch KDE/4.7.

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On June 26, 2011, 1:27 p.m., Philipp Knechtges wrote:
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> (Updated June 26, 2011, 1:27 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin and Plasma.
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> Summary
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> The intention of this patch is to lower the heap fragmentation in KWin when using the raster backend.
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> One can illustrate the issue with the following testcase: If one currently uses the raster backend and
> switches back to non-compositing mode one gets easily a similar memory usage like the following:
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> Situation: 14 windows, QtCurve
> KWin started with compositing: 40 MB
> KWin switched to non-compositing : more than 70 MB
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> The first guess might be, that this is due to a memleak because of not properly released pixmaps.
> But calling malloc_stats() sheds some more light on the subject (non-compositing mode):
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> Arena 0:
> system bytes     =   72232960
> in use bytes     =    8180512
> Arena 1:
> system bytes     =     135168
> in use bytes     =       4784
> Total (incl. mmap):
> system bytes     =   73080832
> in use bytes     =    8898000
> max mmap regions =         13
> max mmap bytes   =   36343808
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> In other words, the glibc has allocated more than 70 MB memory although KWin uses only less than 10 MB.
> The problem is that glibc only resizes the heap if the heap has more than 128 KB of free space at the end, but
> many decoration pixmaps are smaller. Using mallopt to tune the threshold to 20 KB (i'm open for other suggestions?)
> fixes the issue. After the patch:
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> KWin in compositing mode: 19 MB
> KWin switched to non-compositing: 13 MB
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> Arena 0:
> system bytes     =   12374016
> in use bytes     =    6894544
> Arena 1:
> system bytes     =     135168
> in use bytes     =       4784
> Total (incl. mmap):
> system bytes     =   13750272
> in use bytes     =    8140416
> max mmap regions =         67
> max mmap bytes   =   99463168
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> Are there some negative effects?
> The only negative effect i am aware of is, that Glibc free() is calling the sbrk syscall more often. But this should
> not be a bottleneck.
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> Diffs
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>   ConfigureChecks.cmake e8b64a2 
>   config-workspace.h.cmake fabe7fa 
>   kwin/main.cpp f767f54 
>   libs/kworkspace/kworkspace.h f24ea42 
>   libs/kworkspace/kworkspace.cpp 5e9afb9 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101385/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested using a standard Fedora 14.
> Would be nice to know, whether other OSes have similar issues?
> Martin Gräßlin had some concerns about the portability?
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> Thanks,
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> Philipp
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