Bug 117308

Summary:	Gamin leaks memory.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Robert Love <rml>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Robert Love 2005-09-15 18:50:40 UTC

Gamin 0.1.4 and 0.1.5 contains a memory leak that leaks the control block of
every watch.  On a normal, static desktop this amounts to a very small leak. 
But a highly dynamic desktop can leak hundreds of megabytes a day.

This is fixed in 0.1.6, which also fixes some other inotify-related issues.

Comment 1 Stanislav Brabec 2005-09-16 12:26:28 UTC

Andreas. How this should be fixed?

Should I try to isolate memleak and fix only it or try to backport inotify
fixes, too, or even update?

http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/news.html

Comment 2 Robert Love 2005-09-16 13:19:06 UTC

There are not significant changes in 0.1.6 other than the memory leak and the
inotify updates, so wholesale move to 0.1.6 would not hurt.

I built 0.1.6 packages and they work fine.

aj's call, of course ..

Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2005-09-19 07:17:54 UTC

If I read "Large revamp" and "Code reorganization: Let's stay with the current
release and just fix this one bug. 

swampid is: Maintenance-Tracker-2332, send to Gary.

Comment 4 Gary Ekker 2005-09-19 16:29:09 UTC

The patch has been submitted.

Comment 5 JP Rosevear 2005-09-20 12:17:33 UTC

Moving to aj so he can make sure the update is pushed and can close when it is.

Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2005-09-20 12:38:24 UTC

If the patch and patchinfo are submitted, then we can close it.  No need for me
to do anything else.