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It’s always so annoying trying to report memory leaks when 95% of the people just automatically don’t believe you, lol.
I’ve had memory leaks on Fedora 41 and 42, to the point where my entire system crashes because memory usage kept going up. This was when I was using the AMD GPU. Adding swap helped to prevent crashes, but obviously meant that my computer gets slower, since swap space usage would keep going up.
Now, I’m not sure if the problem is in Firefox, which has a ton of outstanding memory leak bugs, or some Linux system software or drivers, but it’s obviously somewhere.
Since switching to Nvidia-only (yes, I’m on a dual-GPU laptop) and disabling the AMD Integrated GPU, I’ve noticed no memory leak anymore. So it’s definitely something with AMD.
There’s also a Firefox issue in their bug tracker that suggests AMD drivers are leaking memory. I don’t have the link to that, but you can search it up in their bug tracker.
Diagnosing a memory leak is not a simple task.
The linux kernel is designed to exploit all of the memory the system has. That means that simply because memory use is high does not necessarily mean you have a bug to fix.
Seeing the OOM killer run is a better clue, if that happens.
As is being able to track an app increasing its memory use over time.
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When someone’s system crashes, there’s a bug. Regardless of if you want to believe it or not. One should not automatically assume someone is wrong without having all of the information.
What’s really sad is people have proven how you’re wrong and yet you still persist in giving disinformation.
@mr-shinigami You should find a different forum to report this. The people here don’t know what they’re talking about. Nobody here is going to help you. The only thing they will do is harm you and automatically assume you’re lying or stupid.
The fact that people here who convey wrong information, who have no valuable expert knowledge, can have Level-4 Trust on this forum should tell you to steer far far away from this place, because the people at the top do not have the knowledge nor the professionalism to help others.
This place isn’t conducive to effective support or steering people in the right direction, let alone giving people the right information.
People might think managing build systems makes them apt to chime in on topics, but it doesn’t.
The Fedora Volunteers even had the audacity to want to punish the community by removing 32-bit support, and complain, because they’re volunteers, as if they didn’t choose that job. Don’t be a volunteer if you’re not going to do the job of volunteering.
@clseibold please stay on topic. And be kind.
In addition, this is a forum and not an helpdesk support line.
People here are people like me and you. Simple users, more or less expert, with their experiences, and willing to help each other.
Trust Level is an automatic system that doesn’t mean anything else than the effort and the passion someone is dedicating to the forum. Obviously it doesn’t forcefully reflect the technical experience nor if someone is a professional or a noob (you can be TL0 and be the most experienced sysadmin), but, if someone reached TL4, it probably means that he/she spent a lot of time here on the forum helping people and giving many useful replies.
Excuse the offtopic remark but i thought TL4 was not an automated trust level but one manually granted?
You are correct with that comment, but probably should not be discussed here.
Trust levels through TL3 are automatically granted (and maybe lost) based on activity here and other factors.
A user at TL3 may be granted TL4 status if they have been TL3 for some time and their activities and interactions meet desired standards, then they personally request TL4 and it is approved by management. The TL4 level remains until manually removed.
In general though, the TL system is automated for 99+% of users except for specific things.
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