GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 567767
Leaks memory due to thread creation
Last modified: 2009-01-14 23:22:43 UTC
Please describe the problem: Every time a new track is started, several threads are created and the process size increases but when the track ends, two (or so) of the threads continue to run. After a while, the process runs out of memory. Steps to reproduce: 1. Run rhythmbox and "fast forward" through tracks in the database (although just letting the player go the next track eventually produce the same result). 2. 3. Actual results: "top" shows more and more threads created in the rhythmbox process and more memory consumed until the process exhausts the system memory. Expected results: rhythmbox to use a more or less constant amount of memory. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: This is on Fedora 10 with a rhythmbox 0.11.6 downloaded from the website and compiled with GCC 4.3.2.
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