Re: [Ekiga-list] mem leak and undesired OPTIONS and PUBLISH calls

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 30/01/13 01:32, James Cloos wrote:
> I have ekiga 4.0.0 installed on a gentoo box.
>
> I left it running for a few hours, and the RSS and VM values show
> evidence of a significant leak.  Right now there are at 2201m and
> 145m after 6:30 hours.

This has just been fixed, see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887602.

> It also sends SIP OPTIONS calls to three of the registrars which I
> configured, using my posix username at each host, even though that
> string is not specified anywhere in the ekiga configuration.  And
> especially not in the account configs.

I think this was fixed by 
http://opalvoip.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opalvoip?view=revision&revision=28849. 
 Where more precisely is your posix username put in OPTIONS?

> In fact it has no meaning at all on those systems.  And ekiga even
> ignores the 404 not found sent back by one of those gateways.

The reason of those OPTIONS is to keep NAT alive, so they should be sent 
no matter if it gets error or not.

> It seems to send those OPTIONS every second or so.  As well as three-dup
> bursts of PUBLISH packets to a couple of the registries each second or so.

This is because of the fixed bug above.  OPTIONS are sent each 10 secs.

> I also noticed that if I remove a new account, ekiga does not stop
> trying the register with it.  (In this case I removed it because
> the registration didn't work.)

Could you start a new e-mail thread and explain better what you do to 
reproduce this?

> I didn't see any way of specifying that a given proxy does not do
> presence.  Did I miss one?

No, I think there is no such option.  Does this hurt you?  There are 
only a few packets dealing with presence.

> What about controling the OPTIONS calls?  I see from NEWS that it is
> done to keep the NAT up, but every second?  And it probably should use
> the authentication user rather than the posix username.

Already answered.

> Git-grep(1)ing through the src didn't show me where the calls to send
> the PRESENCE and OPTIONS packets are, so I can't answer my own
> questions....

Because they are in opal, not in ekiga :), see 
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Manual#Complexity_of_the_software.

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Eugen