Re: [orca-list] Leaky at-spi-registryd update

["David Csercsics" <david shaw ca>]

I'm seeing this leakage as well. Starting gnome and leaving it idle will
cause a slow memory leak. Starting any application will make it grow
faster. Pidgin, Nautilus and Firefox seem to be the biggest of the memory
hogs. On my laptop I start to swap as soon as gnome starts. It has 512 MB
of memory. On my desktop I can run for days without swapping only because
I have a large amount of memory to waste but this is not efficient and
there are other things I'd rather be doing with memory. Both boxes are
running the latest Arch Linux without my usual tweaks. And the hardware
in both boxes is known to be good. I'm watching the memory increase
just idling so I'm not sure where to look. My firefox has noscript
installed and I blacklist every domain pretty much and turned on every
known security setting so you can rule out a pop-up attack. I think that
things that send at-spi events rapidly seem to make memory use go up a
lot. Like opening pidgin tabs and such. I suppose I'll  start rebuilding
stuff with debugging symbols and see what I can find. Ok, technically
I wasn't idling because messages were coming in on IRC but yeah, there
is definitely a leak in at-spi. I also notice that Python uses a very
large chunk of memory when orca and at-spi are running. 469m of virtual
memory and climbing currently and 66mb of resident memory according to
top. That goes up as well over time. The laptop is 32-bit x86 and the
desktop is x86_64.