Comment 3 for bug 382267

I can confirm that the memory leak problem with checkgmail is NOT restricted to Ubuntu or debian-based systems. I am currently running another Linux distro, and checkgmail is locking up my 1.6 GHz Centrino processor with 98-100% CPU usage, and consuming extraordinarily large chunks of available user memory (between 75-85% ... I have 1 GB installed on this computer). A SuperKaramba widget that monitors the top memory usage by programs shows that X keeps consuming more and more memory when checkgmail is running. Most of the time, the only way to get back control of my computer is to restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc). The longer my computer sits idle, the worse the problem is.

Hopefully, this information is useful in finding the memory leak. As it is, I can no longer use checkgmail, despite it otherwise being a very nice program that fills in the void left by no Linux version of Gmail-Notifier in Windows.