Package: netapplet
Version: 1.0.8-1
Severity: normal
Gnome netapplet-1.0.8 constantly leaks memory. On my PowerPC-333, it
leaks, on average, one kilobyte per second. When I have a wireless
card plugged in, the increase in memory usage corresponds with stdout
from netapplet such as the following:
Got Bulldogs 0.306581 1
Got linksys 0.509220 0
Got NETGEAR 0.613162 1
Got linksys 0.485919 0
I believe that the unfreed mallocs may be occuring whenever the
network is scanned. Note that netapplet still leaks memory even
without a wireless card, it just doesn't say anything on stdout.
It is very simple to reproduce this bug. Run netapplet and watch the
RSS memory steadily increase without bound. Here's a little script to
help you to do that:
#!/bin/sh
# watchleak: every second, print how much the netapplet process has grown
PID=$(pgrep netapplet)
ORIGINAL=$(( $(cut -f2 -d' ' /proc/$PID/statm) * 4))
sleep 1
while :;
do
SIZE=$(( $(cut -f2 -d' ' /proc/$PID/statm) * 4))
echo $(( SIZE - ORIGINAL )) kB
sleep 1
done | cat -n
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages netapplet depends on:
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-3 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.2-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libiw28 28-1 Wireless tools - library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-2 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.10-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.6.26.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages netapplet recommends:
ii gnome-system-tools 2.14.0-1.1 Cross-platform configuration utili
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