GnomeDo uses too much ram (memory leak?)

[Kojot350]

Gnome Do eats far too much ram and it increases over the time. After start it uses >48MB and increases over the time, right now it uses 128MB! it's more than X session. Please do something about memory usage.

My system:
Ubuntu 9.04 64bit
gtk#: 2.12.8-2
do: 0.8.2+dfsg-0~9.04~ppa3
mono: 2.0.1-4

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

A list of enabled plugins would be helpful.

[Kojot350 (kojot350)]

AptURL
MPD
Pidgin

and now after 21 hours of uptime gnome-do takes 192MB !

I know it's bloated mono, but common ;P

[Stas Sușcov (sushkov)]

Check the screenshot attached.
Can you please fix this bug!
$ apt-cache policy gnome-do
gnome-do:
  Installed: 0.8.2+dfsg-0~9.04~ppa3
  Candidate: 0.8.2+dfsg-0~9.04~ppa3
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.2+dfsg-0~9.04~ppa3 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.1.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Do you have the Firefox plugin enabled? That is known to leak, and depending on how many bookmarks/how much history you have it can leak *a lot*. If you have that enabled, try disabling it for awhile and see how things are.

[Stas Sușcov (sushkov)]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 20:58 +0000, Robert Dyer wrote:
> Do you have the Firefox plugin enabled? That is known to leak, and
> depending on how many bookmarks/how much history you have it can leak *a
> lot*. If you have that enabled, try disabling it for awhile and see how
> things are.

That solved the problem. Now it uses about 40Megs of ram than before
disabling the plugin.

Thanks

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[Parthiban Balasubramanian (parthiban-bls)]

I can confirm that the Firefox plugin causes a memory leak. I was experiencing the same problem (Do using >300MB after about 12 hrs.). I disabled the Firefox plugin (which doesn't seem to work after the latest updates, btw), and Do stays at ~40MB like it used to.

[adamgmetzler (adamgmetzler)]

I can also confirm that after disabling the firefox plugin Do functions as expected, no crashes after long idle, and no memory consumption.