valgrind run against epiphany-gecko shows memory losses

[C de-Avillez]

Hardy up-to-date as of 15 April 09:00 GMT+2.

I ran epiphany-browser under Valgrind.

After startup (blank page) I went to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-date_last_updated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=New&field.status%3Alist=Incomplete&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=Triaged&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=

Waited for load to finish, and refreshed twice the page (each time waiting for the refresh to finish), then I ended the run.

Valgrind shows a nice amount of lost memory.

 $ apt-cache policy epiphany-browser epiphany-gecko epiphany-extensions
epiphany-browser:
  Installed: 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
epiphany-gecko:
  Installed: 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
epiphany-extensions:
  Installed: 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Just a comment -- this matches my experience (epiphany-browser resident memory grows with time).

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

re-ran it on 9.04:

hggdh@xango2:~ $ apt-cache policy epiphany-browser
epiphany-browser:
  Installé : 2.24.1-1ubuntu2
  Candidat : 2.24.1-1ubuntu2
 Table de version :
 *** 2.24.1-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
hggdh@xango2:~ $

This time I just opened Epiphany, waited for the load to complete, and went on to File/Quit. No other actions performed on Epiphany. Valgrind still shows a nice amount of lost memory.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Opened upstream bug on an updated run of Valgrind, set Ubuntu task to Triaged.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Hum. Upstream states "the gecko backend is not actively maintained anymore and thus won't see any leak fixes".

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing this bug because epiphany-gecko is no longer supported.