Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169384
gam_server leaks
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:14 EST
Description of problem: zaitcev 3413 26.7 44.9 88980 85880 ? S 01:41 214:43 /usr/libexec/gam_server Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gamin-0.1.6-1 How reproducible: Not on every computer. But where it happens, killing gam_server does not solve the problem. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Watch RSS Actual results: System runs out of memory. Expected results: System does not run out of memory. Additional info:
Curiously enough, 0.1.6-1 changelog says "memory leak fix". If anything it made things far worse than before. Trying 0.1.6-3 now...
I don't see how adding calls to free() can increase memory leaks. I can't reproduce it, if you do, valgrind 3.0.1 on gam_server should allow to show said leaks.
Running under valgrind makes gam_server to exit, and it won't keep running now. I think that perhaps something had an earlier version of libgamin-1.so*. This is all done without logging out.
only on per user gam_server can run at a given time so if you start a new one under valgrind it will exit immediately, not valgrind related unless you have a valgrind older than 3.01 http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/debug.html#Debugging1 gives informations on how to find what is using gamin and how it is using it I don't understand what you mean by "I think that perhaps something had an earlier version of libgamin-1.so*. This is all done without logging out." Does this mean that if you log out and in again you don't see the problem ? Daniel
Yes, it seems all right now. No problem.
okay, thanks ! Daniel