I believe this bug affected me as well. Unfortunately I don't have much
to add.
What happened was:
I hadn't been using pidgin for a few days, but it had been idling in the
background for weeks with normal memory consumption. I then got a message from
a friend (MSN) and we exchanged a couple of lines before he went offline. I
sent him a link just a few seconds after he went offline. I switched apps and
30 seconds later noticed I was hitting swap. The system monitor said pidgin was
using 2.4GB (status sleeping), the chat window 2.8GB and had the status "Not
interruptable" ("Kan ikke avbrytes" in norwegian; I'm afraid I don't know the
exact string the english localization uses). Killing and restarting it seems to
return everything to normal.
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pidgin hogs all system memory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226692
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