Dear package maintainers -- please be our heroes and fix this :)
Memory leaks were fixed in Rhythmbox 2.97 and 2.98 as noted in #976534.
I'm currently running RB 2.97 from ubuntuupdates.org and it works
without leaks.
This was my result before:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28905 username 20 0 1978m 1.4g 15m S 39 35.4 33:44.59 rhythmbox
This is my result using the webupd8team PPA:
10545 username 20 0 550m 103m 20m S 4 2.6 52:17.58 rhythmbox
As you can see, even after running for almost twice as long, it uses
only 2.6% memory, and before it was sipping some 35%.
The following upstream report mentions a lot of commits with memory leak
fixes -- perhaps they could be targeted for backporting.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677738
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #677738
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677738
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1031449
Title:
rhythmbox leaking memory
Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application:
New
Status in Ubuntu on the Nexus 7:
Invalid
Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “rhythmbox” source package in Quantal:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Memory usage : 10.9% and constantly increasing (that's over 400 MB on
my system with 4 GB)
Playing a playlist of MP3 files.
This can't be normal, right?
-Lev
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 31 14:07:07 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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