Pidgin 2.5.1 system-crashing memory leak
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
Ubuntu 8.10 beta [upgrade from 8.04.1]
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pidgin:
Installed: 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu2
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I left pidgin open for a couple hours after playing Open arena, using Firefox, and Liferea.
My system began reacting sluggishly, nm-applet restarted, and after checking System Monitor, I saw that Pidgin used up 2.9GB of my 3GB ram. I had to force shutdown, so I was not able to gather any information?
I haven't been able to reproduce this yet.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic x86_64
I don't think this bug is a duplicate. I'm getting the same behaviour even when the sound is muted.