Memory leak in xfce4-netload-plugin and xfce4-systemload-plugin - only on FreeBSD?

[John Marshall]

On 11/04/2012 05:05, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> I see a memory leak (or something like that) in the ports
> sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin
> sysutils/xfce4-systemload-plugin
> 
> The ports start out using less than 100M of memory (taken from the
> SIZE column in top), but over a short time (about a week or two) grows
> to almost 1000M.
> An example is my workstation, which has been up for  about three days now:
> tingo at kg-v2$ uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #5: Fri Apr
>  6 21:35:20 CEST 2012
> root at kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> tingo at kg-v2$ uptime
>  8:49PM  up 3 days, 22:19, 20 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.21, 0.23
> xfce4-netload-plugin is now at 670M and
> xfce4-systemload-plugin is at 509M
> 
> Ports on the machine are updated:
> root at kg-v2# pv | grep netload
> xfce4-netload-plugin-1.1.0  =  up-to-date with port
> root at kg-v2# pv | grep systemload
> xfce4-systemload-plugin-1.0.0_2  =  up-to-date with port
> 
> Does anyone else see this? I reported it originally in the Forums[1] ,
> but didn't get any response.

I have observed the same behaviour on 9.0-RELEASE i386 after several days.

> And how can I diagnose the problem further, so that I can provide a
> better error report
> 
> References:
> 1) http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28698

-- 
John Marshall

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