[bt-devel] critical BUG -- mem leak

mark lybarger bt-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:36:09 +0000


mark lybarger wrote:
> Martin Gruner wrote:
> 
>> A user reported on sf that BibleTime from 1.2 on causes a memory leak. 
>> Once you close it, it does not exit and remains in memory. This is 
>> really evil and makes a 1.2.1 release necessary soon. Could somebody 
>> please investigate what could be causing this? Once this is fixed and 
>> the accels work again we shall release 1.2.1. Tim, if you have the 
>> icons ready until then, we can include them.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> :-(
>>
> 
> A quick test on my system leaves no processes in memory after exiting 
> bt. I'm getting the official 1.2 package (sf downloads are sloooow) and 
> updating cvs right now and will try again.
> 
> 
   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
17721 mark      19   0 1326M 626M  2048 R    89.7 83.2 926:37 bibletime

i came back to my box this morning, and no active bibletime was running, 
but the machine had grinded to a halt.  I checked top, and saw the 
above. i'm not quite sure how bt had managed to take up 626M memory.