EOG memory leak on viewing many jpeg images
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Eye of GNOME |
Confirmed
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Medium
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eog (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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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/
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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
Changed in eog: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in eog: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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