X resource leak with plasma-desktop and workrave

[Lei Zhang]

This could either be a bug in the plasma-desktop package or in the workrave package. Not sure who to blame.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Do an install of Kubuntu Precise.
2. Start up KDE, install xrestop and workrave.
3. Start xrestop, observe the 'misc' field for the plasma-desktop process is holding steady.
4. Start workrave.

Expected: The 'misc' field for plasma-desktop goes up by a little bit in xrestop, and then holds steady.

Actual: With every refresh in xrestop, the 'misc' field for plasma-desktop goes up by 2.

After a few days, the UI response will feel pretty sluggish.

[topaz (top4z)]

I do observe the same problem. It's so annoying.
But for my part, after few days, my x session just crash (looks like the Killed signal). Which oftenly implies lost of work.
I also observe that running and killing many times Skype application raise the number of misc very fast.

KDE version used: 4.9.1
Kubuntu 12.04

Does anyone have any idea on how to track down this bug. I'm familiar with gdb, so don't hesitate if any compilation/scenario are needed !

Cheers,
Olivier

[topaz (top4z)]

Hi All,
Any improvements with Quantal ? I'm not willing to upgrade and endure the same troubles ...

[Kai Bolay (kai-b)]

I'm having the same problem with Kubuntu 12.04 and workrave 1.9.4 :-(

I've filed http://issues.workrave.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1106

[Kai Bolay (kai-b)]

I've just installed workrave 1.10 from https://launchpad.net/~rob-caelers/+archive/workrave and unfortunately the leak seems to have gotten worse. The 'misc' field for plasma-desktop goes up by 5 on every refresh :-(

[Kai Bolay (kai-b)]

I'm happy to report that the leak disappeared after upgrading the nvidia driver from 295.40 to 310.44.