EOG memory leak on viewing many jpeg images

[Žygimantas Augilius]

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jeegiz@hiuvlet:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04
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jeegiz@hiuvlet:~$ apt-cache showpkg eog
Package: eog
Versions:
3.4.0-0ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.soften.ktu.lt_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
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When viewing multiple jpg images, generated by 'motion' (webcam monitoring) software eog is leaking memory, after viewing several hundred images computer starts to slow down.

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15574 jeegiz 20 0 616m 39m 13m S 0 1.0 0:01.84 eog <---- 1 jpg file
15574 jeegiz 20 0 619m 43m 14m S 0 1.1 0:24.56 eog <--- 50 jpg files
15574 jeegiz 20 0 620m 51m 14m S 0 1.3 0:39.13 eog <--- 100 jpg files
15574 jeegiz 20 0 684m 107m 14m S 0 2.7 0:47.83 eog <--- 200 jpg files

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Žygimantas Augilius (jeegiz)]

Upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674284

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending it to GNOME

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

A few versions of Ubuntu and EOG passed and in EOG v3.8.2 (Ubuntu 13.10) this bug is still there. I have watched a few dozen images in eog and not it is using 1.3 GB of memory! Am I kidding? No! See the attached screenshot.