Bug 355481 – Evolution stuck in a tight memory-claiming loop handling spell-checking in mailer

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Bug 355481 - Evolution stuck in a tight memory-claiming loop handling spell-checking in mailer


Summary:	Evolution stuck in a tight memory-claiming loop handling spell-checking in ma...


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	GtkHtml
Classification:	Other
Component:	Editing
Version:	3.12.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gtkhtml-maintainers
QA Contact:	gtkhtml-maintainers

URL:
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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2006-09-11 19:43 UTC by Dave Malcolm
Modified:	2014-08-30 15:24 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	---

Description Dave Malcolm 2006-09-11 19:43:46 UTC

evolution's GUI became unresponsive and memory usage started to rapidly climb (claimed roughly 512MB of heap over roughly 2 minutes), leading to the machine becoming more and more unreponsive as a whole

This is using Fedora development packages:
evolution-2.8.0-1.fc6
evolution-data-server-1.8.0-1.fc6

I captured this backtrace before killing it:

+ Trace 72145

#0 move_spell_errors
at htmltext.c line 2136
#1 object_merge
at htmltext.c line 530
#2 html_object_merge
at htmlobject.c line 911
#3 remove_empty_and_merge
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 325
#4 insert_object_for_undo
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 907
#5 insert_object
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1128
#6 html_engine_insert_text_with_extra_attributes
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1373
#7 html_engine_paste_text_with_extra_attributes
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1404
#8 html_engine_paste_text
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1411
#9 gtk_html_im_commit_cb
at gtkhtml.c line 3233
#10 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__STRING
at gmarshal.c line 496
#11 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 490
#12 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2438
#13 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
#14 IA__g_signal_emit_by_name
at gsignal.c line 2265
#15 gtk_im_multicontext_commit_cb
at gtkimmulticontext.c line 424
#16 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__STRING
at gmarshal.c line 496
#17 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 490
#18 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2438
#19 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
#20 IA__g_signal_emit_by_name
at gsignal.c line 2265
#21 ??
from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/immodules/im-scim.so
#22 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__STRING
at gmarshal.c line 496
#23 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 490
#24 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2438
#25 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at gsignal.c line 2197
#26 IA__g_signal_emit_by_name
at gsignal.c line 2265
#27 gtk_im_context_simple_commit_char
at gtkimcontextsimple.c line 1011
#28 gtk_im_context_simple_filter_keypress
at gtkimcontextsimple.c line 1222
#29 IA__gtk_im_context_filter_keypress
at gtkimcontext.c line 288
#30 gtk_im_context_scim_new
from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/immodules/im-scim.so
#31 IA__gtk_im_context_filter_keypress
at gtkimcontext.c line 288
#32 gtk_im_multicontext_filter_keypress
at gtkimmulticontext.c line 286
#33 IA__gtk_im_context_filter_keypress
at gtkimcontext.c line 288
#34 key_press_event
at gtkhtml.c line 974
#35 _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED
at gtkmarshalers.c line 83
#36 g_type_class_meta_marshal
at gclosure.c line 567
#37 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 490
#38 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2476
#39 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at gsignal.c line 2207
#40 IA__g_signal_emit
at gsignal.c line 2241
#41 gtk_widget_event_internal
at gtkwidget.c line 3901
#42 IA__gtk_window_propagate_key_event
at gtkwindow.c line 4671
#43 gtk_window_key_press_event
at gtkwindow.c line 4701
#44 bonobo_window_key_press_event
at bonobo-window.c line 267
#45 _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED
at gtkmarshalers.c line 83
#46 g_type_class_meta_marshal
at gclosure.c line 567
#47 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 490
#48 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2476
#49 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at gsignal.c line 2207
#50 IA__g_signal_emit
at gsignal.c line 2241
#51 gtk_widget_event_internal
at gtkwidget.c line 3901
#52 IA__gtk_propagate_event
at gtkmain.c line 2162
#53 IA__gtk_main_do_event
at gtkmain.c line 1422
#54 gdk_event_dispatch
at gdkevents-x11.c line 2320
#55 IA__g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2045
#56 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 2677
#57 IA__g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 2881
#58 bonobo_main
from /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0
#59 main
at main.c line 615
#60 __libc_start_main
at libc-start.c line 231
#61 _start

Comment 1 André Klapper 2006-09-11 21:57:46 UTC

so the offending line is
        se = (SpellError *) spell_errors->data;

moving to gtkhtml

Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2007-11-22 15:07:33 UTC

Possibly fixed in bug #495073.

Comment 3 André Klapper 2014-08-30 15:24:00 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Possibly fixed in bug #495073.

Assuming so.