Package: gdesklets-data Version: 0.32 Severity: critical /usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/diskio/diskio.display makes XFree start allocating RAM until (on my 512MiB RAM ~700MiB swap machine) it crashes the machine.
xrestop output before: 0e00000 17 72 1 140 17 12536K 3K 12539K ? gDesklets 5 seconds after starting it: 0e00000 19 72 1 1228 24 121170K 3K 121174K ? gDesklets 10 seconds later: 0e00000 29 78 1 1643 60 155564K 4K 155569K ? gDesklets The bad thing is XFree doesn't free up memory even after stopping gDesklets: 6405 root 15 0 247m 196m 5396 R 0.0 39.0 29:04.35 XFree86 The odd time after I close it, XFree starts eating CPU too. Even though I'm not sure it's related, I'm mentioning it on the offchance it is. :-) 6405 root 16 0 246m 195m 3936 S 26.9 38.7 30:05.46 XFree86 I've tagged the bug critical because if you have gdesklets set up to start at boot (well, at login) and you add that, it can crash your machine each time you boot. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers experimental APT policy: (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gdesklets-data depends on: hi gdesklets 0.33.1-2 an advanced architecture for deskt ii python 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]