Gwibber eats up lots of memory

[Martin Meredith]

Binary package hint: gwibber

On my system, I find that if I leave gwibber running (Facebook, twitter, and identi.ca) that it will eventually cause my system to grind to a halt by eating up all the memory on my machine. This has been the case for all versions of gwibber that I've tried, including the current.

This feels to me like it's some sort of memory leak.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 3 22:03:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gwibber 2.0.0~bzr449-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gwibber
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Jorge Castro (jorge)]

Hi Martin, can you reproduce this in gwibber trunk? Ken has some incoming fixes into karmic at some point so if you could confirm that it's in trunk that would help out, thanks.

[Martin Meredith (mez)]

Would daily be suitable?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this is the upstream bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/306497

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marking this the duplicate of upstream bug and opening an ubuntu task on the upstream bug report.