memory leak generated by audiotestsrc

[Sean DuBois]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 04:33:08PM -0800, Charlie Laub wrote:
> I have been doing some pipeline debugging and testing using gst-launch. I
> noticed that my gst-launch process was increasing its footprint by about 1
> MB PER SECOND! I only spotted this initially when I was hearing some
> glitches in the audio (the pipeline is processing audio). I looked at my
> resource usage and noticed that all of the physical memory on the machine
> was being used. I killed the gstreamer process, restarted it, and looked at
> resource usage for all processes running on my system. That's when the
> memory leak rate became very apparent.
>
>
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> My pipeline, which I will not bother to reproduce here, uses two
> audiotestsrc elements. After some experimentation, I found that when I
> removed these and instead sourced the data from an existing input via a tee
> the memory leak completely disappeared.
>
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>
> To give you some idea of the scope of the memory leak, the memory used by
> the process with the audiotestsrc elements removed is only 5.5 MB. The
> memory leak rate is ONE MB PER SECOND! Something is seriously wrong.
>
>
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> Gstreamer developers: check into this, s'il vous plait?
>

Hey!

I tried a few simple pipelines with multiple audiotestsrces and was not
able to see any obvious leaks (Using 1.13.0 (GIT))

I would be happy to fix this if you can give me an exact version +
pipeline to reproduce.

thanks!