memory leak in gnome-cd

Bug #44629 reported by John Steele Scott
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME media utilities
Unknown
Medium
gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I was looking at a system today where the virtual memory usage of gnome-cd was over 700MB. It seems this program leaks over 100kB each minute.

How I assessed this on my own machine:

1) With no cd in the computer, launch "gnome-cd". Just let it sit there.

2) In a terminal, run the following pipeline:

  while true; do time=$(date +%T) ; ps --no-headers --format "$time %z" $(pgrep gnome-cd); sleep 60; done

This will print the virtual memory usage of gnome-cd each minute with a timestamp. You can exit this command with Ctrl-C.

Revision history for this message
John Steele Scott (toojays) wrote :

By the way, the particular version I have is gnome-media-2.14.0-0ubuntu2.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341751

Changed in gnome-media:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the gstreamer part of that bug has been fixed, libasound might still be a problem, feel free to open a task on it if that's the case

Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-media:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Changed in gnome-media:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Invalid → Unknown
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