Re: [Tracker] tracker-extract crashes in GLib: gmem.c:168: failed to allocate 2330172 bytes

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 12/05/14 14:11, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Ralph,

> I have no idea why the realloc() fails in glib. My first thought was
> that there may be a memory leek somewhere, but checking this with
> Solaris libumem didn't come up with any serios leaks:
>
> root beast:~# mdb /opt/csw/libexec/tracker-extract
> /var/cores/core.tracker-extract.2763 Loading modules: [ libumem.so.1
> libc.so.1 ld.so.1 ]
> > ::findleaks
> CACHE     LEAKED   BUFCTL CALLER 080c9590       1 080e7350
> libglib-2.0.so.0.4000.0`g_mutex_impl_new+0x23
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Total       1 buffer, 32 bytes
> >
>
> Go figure. :( Ideas?

Does it happen each time you index a particular file or is the file
itself not important?

I.e. is it an accumulative effect or isolated to one case?

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Martyn

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