1332753 – possible memory leak in gamin

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Bug 1332753 - possible memory leak in gamin

Summary: possible memory leak in gamin

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	gamin
Sub Component:
Version:	6.8
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
Priority:	high
Severity:	high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Ondrej Holy
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-05-04 01:58 UTC by Joe Wright
Modified:	2020-12-11 12:10 UTC (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-08-15 19:11:40 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Description Joe Wright 2016-05-04 01:58:10 UTC

Description of problem:
- gam_server seems to be using a lot of heap space, hence, this may be a memory leak.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
- RHEL7 with kde
- gamin-0.1.10-16.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

from pmap -X:

17882:   /usr/libexec/gam_server
         Address Perm   Offset Device  Inode    Size     Rss     Pss Referenced Anonymous Swap Locked Mapping
        00400000 r-xp 00000000  fd:02 289996      84      40      40         40         0    0      0 gam_server
        00614000 r--p 00014000  fd:02 289996       4       4       4          4         4    0      0 gam_server
        00615000 rw-p 00015000  fd:02 289996       4       4       4          4         4    0      0 gam_server
        014f0000 rw-p 00000000  00:00      0 6382436 6382412 6382412    6381764   6382412    0      0 [heap]
    7fd782d99000 r-xp 00000000  fd:02 264160      88      56       0         56         0    0      0 libpthread-2.17.so
    7fd782daf000 ---p 00016000  fd:02 264160    2048       0       0          0         0    0      0 libpthread-2.17.so
    7fd782faf000 r--p 00016000  fd:02 264160       4       4       4          0         4    0      0 libpthread-2.17.so
...
    7ffd8ba51000 rw-p 00000000  00:00      0     148      28      28         20        28    0      0 [stack]
    7ffd8bacb000 r-xp 00000000  00:00      0       8       8       0          8         0    0      0 [vdso]
ffffffffff600000 r-xp 00000000  00:00      0       4       0       0          0         0    0      0 [vsyscall]
                                             ======= ======= ======= ========== ========= ==== ====== 
                                             6392544 6384024 6382830    6383348   6382540    0      0 KB 

6+ GB is rather large for this service
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Comment 18 Ondrej Holy 2017-03-22 08:04:35 UTC

Let me know if this is still an issue with RHEL 6.9 (or patch from Bug 1399726).

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