Re: [Vala] DBus and memory leaks?

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

Try with a (very) recent valac, possibly git master. We fixed a memory leak
about hashtables with variant values. It might be that.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio <me medesimo eu>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm writing a notification daemon using vala and GTK+.
> This of course uses DBus (and the org.freedesktop.Notifications domain,
> following the spec at https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/).
>
> While everything works so far, I have a strange problem: when an
> application sends a notification with the 'image-data' (or the
> deprecated 'icon_data') hint (which is a raw image data structure, see
> https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/#images) the notification
> daemon grows up in RAM usage.
>
> For example, when spotify sends a notification, the RAM usage of the
> daemon grows to 42 MB (from 2 MB).
> When another notification goes in, the usage doubles... and I get 81 MB
> of RAM usage.
> This happens too with other music player such as exaile.
>
> No problems instead for "conventional" notifications.
>
> A stripped-out version of the notification daemon is here:
> http://pastebin.com/jPeSB0Nb
>
> It's really simple, no GTK+ at all, and the Notify() method is empty.
> Unfortunately also this version has the same memory leak problem. :(
>
> I'm running Debian sid with valac 0.24 (but I've tried also with 0.22
> and 0.20 with no luck).
>
> Any pointers are appreciated: this has been driving me mad for the last
> two days! :)
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Eugenio
>
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