Re: [Tracker] Memory leak in tracker-indexer

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jimmy Huang wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 00:21 +0200, Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > there is a big memory leak with tracker-indexer. The processus uses more
> > and more memory but free almost all memory when it exists so I assume
> > that a list of extracted info is not freed while tracker-indexer is
> > running.
>
> What's the best way to track memory leaks when running the tracker
> daemon?  I also found that there's some huge memory leaks when using the
> tracker-tag cmd line tool.  I have a script that adds some random
> keywords to 10 thousand indexed files using the "tracker-tag -a"
> command, after executing the script, the trackerd process is consuming
> some 400MB of memory, and I have to kill it.
>
> Any recommendation on how to track down the leak?

Using Valgrind. Something like:

G_SLICE=always-malloc valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes
--leak-resolution=high <my binary>

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Regards,
Martyn