[Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#612962: Bug#612962: amule: Exits after a few minutes - probably due to severe memory leak

[Sandro Tosi]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 00:00, Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote:
> tags 612962 +confirmed
> thanks
>
> Hi Tony,
> thanks for your report.
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 22:06, Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> wrote:
>> Package: amule
>> Version: 2.2.6+debian0-8
>> Severity: important
>>
>> amule keeps quitting after a short time, often before it's reached the
>> front of any download queues. I've tried runnning it from a terminal
>> with ulimit -c unlimited but it just exits without any message. A few
>> times I've noticed that it's eating masses of memory, causing severe
>> swapping, so presumably it's exiting because it runs out of memory, but
>> I'm not sure if that's the cause every time.
>
> I can replicate it on one of my system (but not on another, weird)
>
>> It seems to be triggered by trying to download several files at once
>> (more than 10?). On one occasion I was experiencing the crashes with far
>> fewer downloads but deleting the .aMule directory and restarting it made
>> it work reliably.  But I've just tried deleting everything from .aMule
>> except my partial downloads (currently 16 of them) and the instability
>> is persisting.
>
> There is a thread[1] on the upstream forum where the problem seems to
> be related to the download limits, and to some bug in wx.
>
> [1] http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=18543
>
> Let's see how it goes, since the current solution seems to be in the
> wx libs (so not even a amule bug).

This problem is fixed (on the system I have that was affected) by
upgrading to the latest version (from experimental): 2.3.1~rc1-1 .

Could you please try that version and let me know?

Regards,
-- 
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