Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pidgin
This seems to be an interaction between KDE4.X's sound system, Firefox playing flash audio, and Pidgin. In any case it's pidgin that shows the leak (and eventually wigs out) so I'm filing under pidgin Over time (less than 24 hours) the number of open pipes (and open wav sounds) will grow to 1024, leading to pidgin becoming unable to log conversations or open URLs. At that point I restart pidgin and everything is fine. reub...@fridge:~/code$ ls -l /proc/10801/fd | wc 706 7052 52098 reub...@fridge:~/code$ ls -l /proc/10801/fd | grep pipe | wc 596 5960 42246 reub...@fridge:~/code$ ls -l /proc/10801/fd | grep wav | wc 76 760 6948 reub...@fridge:~/code$ ps ax | grep 10801 10801 ? SLl 1:33 /usr/bin/pidgin 19378 pts/6 R+ 0:00 grep 10801 Here are some of the wavs it has open file handles to: lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 677 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 678 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 679 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 680 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 681 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 682 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 683 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 684 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/logout.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 685 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 686 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 687 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 688 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 689 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 690 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 691 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 692 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 693 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 694 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 696 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 697 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/logout.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 698 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 699 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 700 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 701 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 702 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/receive.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 703 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav lr-x------ 1 reubenf reubenf 64 2009-01-30 09:36 704 -> /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav This isn't consistent; not every sound played results in an open file. And, it isn't necessarily associated with flash audio; overnight it grew from 29 to 76 wavs open, without pandora playing - but, I haven't seen the leak start until I've been playing flash audio at the same time that pidgin is open. ** Affects: pidgin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Pidgin has resource leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs