Bug#149176: marked as done (gconf2: running wild - memory usage)
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Subject: gconf2: running wild - memory usage
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Package: gconf2
Version: 1.1.10-2
Severity: critical
gconf2 is continuously eating up all memory (physical + swap, here: ~ 2G). If all memory is consumed, the box is rendered unusable for a couple seconds breaking everything relying on cpu time, then gconf2 starts from zero again (and again and again...).
Happened while using gconf2 with current galeon and gael packages, rendering these programs unuseable (they do not start at all, no bug output, just sitting at the commandline and waiting for something).
gconf does not shut down via proper command, even kill -9 doesn't help, it just restarts itself. Only an endless loop (while [1]; do kill -9 <current_pid>;done) does get rid of the daemon after a good dozen of kills.
In this state, the package is *not* useable!
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux maniac 2.4.17 #8 SMP Tue Apr 30 22:28:22 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages gconf2 depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.0.2-1 The ATK accessibility library
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libgcc1 3.1-2 GCC support library.
ii libglib2.0-0 2.0.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.0.2-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii liblinc1 0.1.22-1 library to simplify creating networked clien
ii liborbit2 2.3.110-1 Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.0.2-1 Layout and rendering of internationalized te
ii libpopt0 1.6.2-7 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libxml2 2.4.20-1 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
rc libgconf2-4 1.1.10-2 GNOME configuration database system librarie
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Subject: Re: gconf2: running wild - memory usage
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> gconf2 is continuously eating up all memory (physical + swap, here: ~
> 2G)
No news on this bug for more than 1 year, this bug is probably
fixed in the new versions of gconf. I'm closing it. Feel free to reopen
it if the bug is still here.
Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher