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Bug 624082 - GPM memory leak on amd64
GPM memory leak on amd64
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-power-manager
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gnome-power-manager
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-11 05:08 UTC by Dave V
Modified: 2010-07-12 13:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Dave V 2010-07-11 05:08:07 UTC 
The gnome-power-manager process continually grows in size, consuming memory, pushing other programs into swap and generally killing the system. It takes around a week or two to eventually fill 1GB of ram. Killing and restarting the process is an easy enough work around.

I don't see this problem on my i686 laptop, just my amd64 desktop.

I killed the process and ran "valgrind --leak-check=full gnome-power-manager 2> valgrind-gpm-dump". I allowed it to run for about 8 hours before interrupting with control-C to output the report. The screen was locked for most of this time (via GPM's lock screen after 10 minutes). The file is attached. If there's anything else that you'd like me to attach, please let me know.

$ gnome-power-manager --version
Version 2.30.0

Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Lucid Lynx
Comment 1 Dave V 2010-07-11 05:15:23 UTC 
attachment failed as it's slightly too big (1.3M vs the 1.0M max). please see the text file at:
http://mindkeep.org/valgrind-gpm-dump
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2010-07-12 06:24:00 UTC 
This is caused by a shitty patch written by ubuntu that is not upstream. Please file this with launchpad, it's not my problem. Thanks.
Comment 3 Dave V 2010-07-12 12:35:06 UTC 
Ha. Will do. Thanks.