Leaks memory

Bug #20636 reported by Ross Burton
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gamin (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

I've noticed that gam_server is leaking memory like mad:

29249: /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server
Address Kbytes RSS Anon Locked Mode Mapping
08048000 64 - - - r-x-- gam_server
08058000 8 - - - rw--- gam_server
0805a000 295876 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
b7d54000 260 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
b7d95000 36 - - - r-x-- libnss_files-2.3.5.so
b7d9e000 4 - - - rw--- libnss_files-2.3.5.so
b7d9f000 32 - - - r-x-- libnss_nis-2.3.5.so
b7da7000 4 - - - rw--- libnss_nis-2.3.5.so
b7da8000 72 - - - r-x-- libnsl-2.3.5.so
b7dba000 4 - - - rw--- libnsl-2.3.5.so
b7dbb000 8 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
b7dbd000 32 - - - r-x-- libnss_compat-2.3.5.so
b7dc5000 4 - - - rw--- libnss_compat-2.3.5.so
b7dc6000 4 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
b7dc7000 1184 - - - r-x-- libc-2.3.5.so
b7eef000 16 - - - rw--- libc-2.3.5.so
b7ef3000 12 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
b7ef6000 496 - - - r-x-- libglib-2.0.so.0.800.1
b7f72000 20 - - - rw--- libglib-2.0.so.0.800.1
b7f85000 12 - - - rw--- [ anon ]
b7f88000 84 - - - r-x-- ld-2.3.5.so
b7f9d000 4 - - - rw--- ld-2.3.5.so
bfa87000 88 - - - rw--- [ stack ]
ffffe000 4 - - - ----- [ anon ]
-------- ------- ------- ------- -------
total kB 298328 - - -

Nearly 300M on the heap... nice!

This is with gamin 0.1.5-0ubuntu1, and I can replicate it on demand.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

probably a duplicate of #13449. If you can get a valgrind log of the issue or
something that would be nice.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19692.

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