Re: [Tracker] tracker-store leaking

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 13:24 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Seems there's some bad leak in tracker-store; top claims it's upwards
> of 300MB of RAM while valgrind output is summarised below. For a full
> log, please find attached.

> From looking at your log, it appears that you're running valgrind
without setting G_SLICE=always-malloc. Not setting this environment
variable may lead to bogus results. G_DEBUG=gc-friendly is recommended
to be set as well when using valgrind to further improve results.

If you see tracker-store using 300 MB private writable memory, there is
certainly something wrong, though. I see a couple small memory leaks
which I'll fix. My valgrind run doesn't report anything like the huge
memory leak you've been reported, however, I will continue to look into
this.

JÃrg