Memory usage grows even when clearing history
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glipper |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
If you place a large amount of information on the glipper clipboard, then glipper's memory usage grows without reduction. While some increase in memory usage while the items are on the clipboard is reasonable and expected, glipper's memory usage remains high even when the history is cleared.
I initially spotted this because glipper was using almost a gigabyte of memory despite having had its history cleared.
Some quick testing suggests that glipper doesn't release memory for things which have fallen off the end of the list either, though I'm less sure of this.
My quick testing consisted of:
- visit https:/
- open the top 15 or so pages
- copy both the text content of the page and the source for the page
- clear glipper's history
`apt policy glipper` tells me I have version '2.4-6'.
I'm using Ubuntu Xenial (16.04.5).
| yangoon (mathiasb) wrote | #1 |
I am hit by the same issue. After a few days of usage my machine got unreactive due to memory running out. I can not tell since when this issue exists, the version on my system is 2.4-6 as well. glipper now takes regularly up to 6GB of RAM. Killing glipper results in the immediate freeing of this memory.