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libgtop package

Memory leak in libgtop

Bug #319108 reported by Rafał Krypa on 2009-01-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #307472: multiload-applet-2 leaks memory. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libgtop (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Intrepid by Harald Rudell

Bug Description

Ubuntu release: 8.10
libgtop2-7 version: 2.24.0-0ubuntu2

I found out, that multiload-applet-2 is leaking memory. It seems that it is caused by libgtop memleak at linux_2_6_0().
Please see my simple patch that solved the problem for me.

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Rafał Krypa (r.krypa) wrote on 2009-01-20:

Fixes the memleak for me Edit (586 bytes, text/plain)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-01-20:

Thanks for the report, Sebastien may you have a look to the patch? Thanks.

Changed in libgtop:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

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Harald Rudell (harald-rudell) wrote on 2009-04-20:

When the resident size of multiload-applet-2 reached 1.0 GiB on a 2 GiB memory system, all sorts of things started failing. This is on a desktop 8.10 lvm installation providing various services to other clients such as apache, svn etc.

* hard drives where on 100% iowait (swapping) leading to frozen-soft resetting entries in the system log
* my ssh connections became unresponsive after being idle for a few minutes
* the system could no longer be updated from repositories
* usb keyboards stopped working

dpkg -l lists that libgtop2-7 is of version 2.24.0-ubuntu2, which is the leaking version. A fix need to be submitted to 8.10 for this problem

It seems the only reason that the whole planet does not run into this is because they either reboot their systems often or do not have the system monitor active as an applet