[Bug 30185] Rhythmbox uses excessive memory/Possible Leak?

[Phil Bull]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/30185

Task: ubuntu rhythmbox
       Severity: Critical => Normal
       Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Comment:
Thanks for the report.

Does this only happen with rhythmbox, or can it occur with other music players?

You might like to try to profile the memory usage of rhythmbox. Install the 'valgrind' package and run the following command from the terminal (all one line):

valgrind --tool=massif --depth=5  --alloc-fn=g_malloc
--alloc-fn=g_realloc --alloc-fn=g_try_malloc --alloc-fn=g_malloc0
--alloc-fn=g_mem_chunk_alloc rhythmbox

Rhythmbox will be very slow, but let it run for a little while. When you close rhythmbox, you should get a couple of files written to your current directory (called massif something). Open the ps file for a nice graph of memory allocation by the process over time. This *might* shed some light on the problem, I don't know.

Also, I've reduced the severity until this can be confirmed.

Thanks again