Extreme memory leak in Pidgin when attempting to play sound
Bug #200392 reported by
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Pidgin |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
Pidgin sits usually between 10mb and 12mb memory usage, but since a very recent update (today, 9th March), as soon as I recieve a message, the memory usage jumps within seconds to nearly a gigabyte.
Always reproducible on my computer. Tested with no other programs running.
Pidgin 2.4.0 (bug happened in older version too)
Ubuntu 8.04 alpha6 amd64
Gnome 2.21.92
linux-image-generic 2.6.24.12-11
Changed in pidgin: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
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Ok, I found what was wrong after messing in .purple/prefs.xml
<pref name='sound'>
<pref name='while_status' type='int' value='1'/>
</pref>
The default value of 1 works. Changing this to
<pref name='sound'>
<pref name='while_status' type='int' value='3'/>
</pref>
will make the program die on message reception.