Huge mem leak

815 MB RAM and 550 swap at the moment :(

Basicly when the blue part of RAM in KSysGuard hits the above green line at 829320, their's a big transfer to the swap. Normally this happens each 15(?) minutes without a limit.

The cpu is normally at 13%@ my athlon64 3200+ for the gam_server process, and it hits the top everytime when the it needs to swap from ram to swap.

Screenshots:
- beginning http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6816/gamin19pc.jpg
- later http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9582/gamin35bb.jpg
- later2 http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/4623/gamin47gi.jpg
- RAM of later2 http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/8107/gamin58yj.jpg

Ok last one, now i'l'l kill it, my system doesn't like this...
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4190/gamin67jq.jpg

Forget to say that it's on 32bit version.

I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.2, and I noticed my computer was getting less responsive. I ran top and I saw this...

7108 bbeck 15 0 1017m 305m 380 S 0.0 60.7 43:57.47 gam_server

After seeing this, I killed the gam_server, and my machine began running as usual. I never had this problem before upgrading to the latest KDE.

Thanks.

Up to date Ubuntu Breezy

philou@bipbip:/proc/1362$ date; pmap 1362
ven avr 28 10:10:07 CEST 2006
1362: /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server
08048000 64K r-x-- /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server
08058000 8K rw--- /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server
0805a000 5276K rw--- [ anon ]
[snip]
ffffe000 4K ----- [ anon ]
 total 7736K

philou@bipbip:/proc/1362$ date; pmap 1362
ven avr 28 10:18:26 CEST 2006
1362: /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server
08048000 64K r-x-- /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server
08058000 8K rw--- /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server
0805a000 8156K rw--- [ anon ]
[snip]
ffffe000 4K ----- [ anon ]
 total 10616K

Almost 3000 ko in 8 minutes !

I installed gamin and libgamin0 from dapper (0.1.7-2ubuntu1) and it now works smoothly. A backport from dapper whould be nice, I guess

Philippe, do you use KDE or GNOME or something else as desktop?

Sebastien, I use Gnome on my machine.

gam_server leaks memory on my machine too. Hangs the whole system unless killed. Can be killed as normal user. Using Breezy, Gnome and gamin 0.1.5-0ubuntu1.

For more details on this bug take a look at:
http://astokes.org/?q=node/62

I had the same problem but used the fix from Dapper

Do you still have the problem?

I since upgraded to Dapper but as long as I used Breezy I had the
problem. Apparently fixes from Dapper were not backported so the bug
is probably still there.
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According to last comment it's fixed in Dapper. Marking as fixed.

Right.
Sorry guys, the spam load i got during the holidays did me remove some legimit mail too...

All looks fine here for gamin.
The leak was not an issue anymore when i upgraded to dapper.

I remember the cpu was still bumpy on gamin though in the beginning of my dapper time, but i think have not seen that problem for a long time now.