[Bug 92143] gnome-session leaks huge amounts of memory on Dapper

[jmspeex]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-session

There is a memory leak in gnome-session that is causing it to slowly fill all available memory. My machine has now been up for 50 days and ps shows 523MB:
jm        5249  0.0  4.8 536232 49752 ?        Ss   Jan24   1:30 x-session-manager

Using pmap, I see:
% pmap 5249
5249:   x-session-manager
08048000    112K r-x--  /usr/bin/gnome-session
08064000      4K rw---  /usr/bin/gnome-session
08065000   3128K rw---    [ anon ]
96973000 465888K rw---    [ anon ]
b3703000  33760K rw---    [ anon ]
b58e9000   9112K r----  /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
... [the rest looks normal]

The offending like is obviously "96973000 465888K rw---    [ anon ]",
which unfortunately isn't very useful (except maybe to exclude some
dso).

The leak grows at a slow, steady pace (or so it seems) over time, until
I kill the X session or shutdown the machine. Even if I close all
applications (e.g. firefox, gnome-terminal, ...), the memory use doesn't
go down.

Machine info:
Dell D810 laptop
Pentium-M 2.13 GHz, 1 GB RAM
1 GB swap
Dapper 6.10 with up-to-date patches
Gnome environment

** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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gnome-session leaks huge amounts of memory on Dapper
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92143