Bug#772636: rxvt-unicode: memory leak in urxvtd

2014-12-09 Thread Ian Campbell
Package: rxvt-unicode Version: 9.20-1+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I use urxvtd via urxvtd -q -o -f and there appears to be a memory leak of some sort. The process (the child of the two processes which result from the above) grows without bound until the OOM killer is invoked and it

Bug#772636: rxvt-unicode: memory leak in urxvtd

2014-12-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 12:02 +, Ian Campbell wrote: I tried running under Valgrind, but urxvtd is sgid so Valgrind is unable to run (if you know of a workaround for this I'll gladly try again). Shortly after hitting Send I had a small epiphany. I copied /usr/bin/urxvt (nb not urxvtd)