x11-utils: xprop -spy leaks memory

Tomas Janousek tomi at nomi.cz
Fri May 15 09:55:26 PDT 2015


Hello,

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 02:38:39AM +0100, DesDZ wrote:
> There seems to be a memory leak in the xprop tool, when using the -spy
> option. Pulseaudio uses that option to know when the X session ends, as
> an example. On my (long-running) X session, xprop memory usage was
> steadily growing until using 1.5G...
> 
> You'll find a patch as an attachment, it's not mine and I couldn't test
> it, I found it at:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.pulseaudio/4456
> 
> Here is the related Debian Bug:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765828
> 
> Thanks for your hard work...

Ping? This still seems to be a problem. :-(

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Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Pivník, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/


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