What to do to get a fix in 8.04?

[Chris Mohler]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 10/30/2008 06:15 PM, Rolf Kutz wrote:
>> On 30/10/08 15:48 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>>On 10/30/2008 10:06 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> Rolf Kutz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bug #203016 has been open for more than half a
>>>>> year and it's mayor annoyance. There is a patch
>>>>> for it since month, too. What is neccessary to get
>>>>> the fix released to Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/network-manager/+bug/203016
>>>>>
>>>> Begging?  It's an annoyance but it seems to have been assigned no more
>>>> than "medium" importance, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's never going
>>>> to be an official fix to this in Hardy.
>>>
>>>Given that Hardy is an LTS, I see the requirement to apply the fix to
>>>hardy as considerably more important than Intrepid. But the last post on
>>>that bug indicates that it's not fixed in Intrepid either.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know of a good memory leak detection manager that could be
>>>used to effectively monitor this?
>>
>> top and then sort for memory (M).
>>
>
> Yeah, but that doesn't work well for logging and providing details for
> what/where/when etc., that I know of. I'd prefer to find a way to dump
> memory leaks to a file (similar to the Mozilla SeaMonkey 'Leak Detector'
> in 2.0a1) so that the information can be added to a bug report.

How about valgrind?

Chris