GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591352
Huge memory leak when using podcasts
Last modified: 2010-01-24 12:15:09 UTC
After adding about 15 podcasts, Banshee stars eating the whole machines memory in about 10 minutes. Even after restarting and not using the podcast-function at all, this behaviour stays. The same problem exists in 1.5.0.
Looks similar to bug 586052. Could you run banshee in terminal and attach the log file? $ banshee-1 --debug > log.txt
It didnt write spurious things to the log i'm afraid, but you may be right that this could be a duplicate of #586052, which itself maybe is a duplicate of #555365 - people seem to be picking in the fog there (but they start getting bigger sticks) and nobody actually seems to care. How can it be such leaks are in git for over 2 months now even when that regression was in 1.5.0? It's a stopper. BTW: I don't need 2 days for Banshee filling my 768 megs of ram, it's a matter of 10 minutes. But that may be related to the size of the collection as someone pointed out on the other bug. It doesn't happen if I don't use the podcast feature though.
I just added 15 random podcasts from http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/ As I did it the memory usage grew from 55MiB to 75MiB. After listening the downloaded episodes for 10 minutes with a lot of skipping, the memory usage settled at 85MiB. After restarting banshee and listening for downloaded podcasts for further 10 minutes, the memory usage stays at ~67MiB. I never use the podcasting extension so it could be I'm doing something wrong in my attempt to reproduce the leak. Could you post the links to podcasts that you have? It seems the leak happens only for specific podcasts.
You seem to be correct, I just removed my banshee-configuration and added 15 podcasts from that URL, the leak is gone. I will try to add the podcasts i had added before one for one and check which one is causing that problems.
A downstream report on Launchpad[1] sounds fairly similar to this one. The report claims the issue happens specifically with video podcasts, and it links to this one[2] as an example. I rarely use podcasts, and I haven't tried this one yet. I'll do so soon and see if I have the same memory issues. A couple Banshee 1.5.1 users have confirmed the issue downstream within the past couple days, so it seems like there's still something strange happening. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/365630 [2] http://www.prosieben.de/podcast/galileo/index.xml
I may have read this bug report too quickly. The leak here was happening when *adding* multiple podcasts, yes? The report I linked to on Launchpad noticed massive leaks while *playing* podcasts. In that regard, the downstream report may be more similar to Bug 586052. Either way, I added several video podcasts from the subscription I mentioned in my last comment and watched them for just over 10 minutes. I didn't notice any major memory issues when adding the podcasts or while watching them. My results were fairly consistent with Alexander's - 55MiB initially, up to around 75MiB after downloading several podcasts and watching one for 10 minutes. Frank, have you had any luck reproducing this since August?
Hm. The problem seems to be OBSOLETE by now. I am thus closing. Feel free to revert.