Created attachment 327856 [details] fix memory leak in libgtop2 Description of problem: multiload-applet-2 leaks terribly in f10 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): f10 gnome-applets-2.24.2-2.fc10.x86_64 libgtop2-2.24.0-2.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login to gnome. add multiload-applet to panel 2. not sure if necessary, but configure multiload-applet-2 to watch all monitored resoures (proc., memory, network, swap, load and harddisk) 3. watch the memory usage of multiload-applet-2 Actual results: usage goes up and up with no bound at a constant rate. Expected results: no increased memory usage Additional info: This bug is reported in upstream gnome bugzilla, where a fix from the ubuntu folks has been added: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557602 The original (fixed) bug in ubuntu, with analysis and valgrind logs is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/libgtop2/+bug/307472 Thanks to ubuntu and Brian Downing for the real legwork. This should be a slam dunk. I'm going to attach Brian's patch here as well.
i should add, in the interests of getting this fixed, that when i said above that the patch 'has been added in upstream', i mean that _I_ attached this same patch there in the hope that the fix would be applied either upstream or here in fedora. otherwise, I have to kill the applet ever 3 days or so or risk OOM-ing my system.
is there anything additional I can do at this point to help this along?
this has been fixed upstream, and the fix should be available when the (now in updates-testing) 2.24.3 hits. i can confirm that the testing version fixes the problem.
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