Bug 44853

Summary: glms_applet leaks memory
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: msterret
Component: glmsAssignee: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.1CC: rvokal
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Hardware: i386   
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Description msterret 2001-06-18 14:15:28 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686)

Description of problem:
glms_applet leaks memory continuously as it runs.  After a few days, it's
using more memory than the font server, xfs.  Killing and restarting it
makes
the used memory for glms_applet reasonable again.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start glms_applet
2. wait around
	

Actual Results:  glms_applet leaks memory

Expected Results:  glms_applet memory usage should remain basically
constant.

Additional info:

According to rpm -q --requires glms:

audiofile-0.2.1-ximian.2
compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
db1-1.85-5
esound-0.2.22-ximian.3
glib-1.2.10-ximian.2
glibc-2.2.2-10
gnome-core-1.4.0.4-ximian.1
gnome-libs-1.2.13-ximian.10
gnome-libs-devel-1.2.13-ximian.10
gtk+-1.2.10-ximian.10
imlib-1.9.10-ximian.2
lm_sensors-2.5.5-3
ORBit-0.5.8-ximian.2
XFree86-libs-4.0.3-5
zlib-1.1.3-22

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2001-06-26 15:58:11 UTC
It's very hard to tell where this program leaks memory, so it might take some
time to get fixed.

As a workaround you could set up a nightly cronjob to restart it... Not a good
solution, i know, but a working one.

Read ya, Phil