It crashes my computer in Natty. This is a serious bug, because it
causes all kinds of havoc. Loss of data, for one thing.
However, this is not just a bug in gltext: it is a bug in xscreensaver.
Xscreensaver should adjust the OOM killer to preferentially kill its
subprocesses. A screensaver subprocess is *NOT* an important process -- it
should not be allowed to run wild and endanger the operation of the rest of the
system.
A simple manipulation in /proc/[pid]/oom_adj would solve the problem.
open("/proc/%d/oom_adj", "w").write("10\n")
would do the trick.
** Changed in: xscreensaver (Ubuntu Natty)
Status: New => Confirmed
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gltext seems to leak memory eventually causing oom-killer to run
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