python-dbus 0.80.1 memory leak issue

[Curtis Maloney]

Luka Renko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am one of the developers of KDE Guidance Power Manager that uses python-dbus 
> to access HAL for power management (battery, suspend/hibernate, CPU freq 
> scaling). By recent upgrade of python-dbus in Kubuntu Feisty to python-dbus 
> 0.80.1 we have got several user complaints about huge memory consumption of 
> our application. Memory was used in the range of 0.5 MB/minute. See bug [1] 
> for more details.

I got one of our guys to test this out on our dev system, and it looks like 
we're seeing leakage as well.

We're using the default glib mainloop.

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Curtis Maloney
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