Large memleak in whoopsie

[Evan]

Daniel has found a large memleak in whoopsie:

[10:26am] dholbach: what is whoopsie and why does it use 89% of 8G of RAM?
[10:26am] pitti: ev: ^
[10:26am] pitti: dholbach: ev's new crash reporting daemon
[10:26am] ev: gah
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[10:27am] pitti: the joys of C programs?
[10:27am] ev:
[10:27am] ev: I did run it through memcheck
[10:27am] ev: dholbach: do you have any .upload files in /var/crash?
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[10:28am] dholbach: 28294 whoopsie 20 0 37.0g 7.0g 1116 S 0 90.4 0:33.84 whoopsie
[10:28am] dholbach: ev, no, just a bunch of .crash files
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[10:29am] ev: interesting
[10:29am] ev: did you elect to report any crashes using the new apport UI?
[10:29am] dholbach: yes

daniel@daydream:~$ ls -la /var/crash/
insgesamt 51592
drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 Feb 23 11:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 23 09:09 ..
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 57720 Feb 15 22:58 bzr.1000.2012-02-15T21:58.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 59268 Feb 22 10:38 bzr.1000.2012-02-22T09:38.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 5743160 Feb 17 18:42 _usr_bin_compiz.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 10366 Feb 20 07:36 _usr_bin_do-release-upgrade.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 3840497 Feb 17 19:25 _usr_bin_gnome-panel.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 10801559 Feb 21 23:08 _usr_bin_gwibber.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 22739538 Feb 22 16:20 _usr_bin_unity-2d-shell.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel daniel 1343094 Feb 23 09:28 _usr_lib_chromium-browser_chromium-browser.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 4103923 Feb 22 16:20 _usr_lib_rhythmbox_rhythmbox-metadata.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 4015560 Feb 20 18:06 _usr_lib_telepathy_telepathy-gabble.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 29366 Feb 22 16:19 _usr_lib_unity-lens-video_unity-lens-video.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 20792 Feb 19 12:42 _usr_share_oneconf_oneconf-query.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 daniel whoopsie 24901 Feb 19 21:29 _usr_share_oneconf_oneconf-service.1000.crash
daniel@daydream:~$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Evan (ev)]

Daniel,

Are you still seeing this behavior with whoopsie 0.1.14?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Either I didn't run into this condition again or it's fixed now. Feel free to close it and I'll get back to you if it should occur again.

[Evan (ev)]

YAY! Thanks!