[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#440858: xfce4-sensors-plugin: seems to leak memory

Tino Keitel tino.keitel+debbugs at tikei.de
Thu Feb 14 08:56:55 UTC 2008


Package: xfce4-sensors-plugin
Version: 0.10.99.4~svn-r3775-1
Followup-For: Bug #440858

I also think I have spotted a memory leak, however, I don't know if it is
the same bug. The RSS value grows by 4 kb roughly every 2 minutes:

$ pidof xfce4-sensors-plugin
1731
$ while true; do cat /proc/1731/status | grep -E "VmSize|RSS"; sleep 60; done
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6640 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6640 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6644 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6644 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6648 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6648 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6652 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6652 kB
VmSize:	   14432 kB
VmRSS:	    6652 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6656 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6656 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6660 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6660 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6680 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6684 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6684 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6688 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6688 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6688 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6692 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6692 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6696 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6696 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6700 kB
VmSize:	   14560 kB
VmRSS:	    6700 kB

That makes ~2,8 MB after one day.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xfce4-sensors-plugin depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.20.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.4.14-1          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.5.0-2           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.14.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.8-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.18.4-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-3    PNG library - runtime
ii  libsensors4            1:3.0.1-1         library to read temperature/voltag
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxfce4util4          4.4.2-1           Utility functions library for Xfce
ii  libxfcegui4-4          4.4.2-1           Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xfce4-panel            4.4.2-2           The Xfce4 desktop environment pane
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xfce4-sensors-plugin recommends:
ii  hddtemp                    0.3-beta15-38 Utility to monitor the temperature
ii  lm-sensors                 1:3.0.1-1     utilities to read temperature/volt

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