[Pidgin] #2561: Log viewer -- crippling memory hog

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#2561: Log viewer -- crippling memory hog
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 Reporter:  strategist333           |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new                     |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)            |    Version:  2.1.0 
 Keywords:  memory high log viewer  |    Pending:  0     
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 Vista Home Premium 32-bit:

 This is not a reproducible phenomenon, but I've had it happen to me twice
 in the past two days. The first time, memory usage for Pidgin shot up to
 500 MB when I opened a user's log file (the next time I tried to reproduce
 the bug, memory usage stayed at around 15 MB). The second time, I was
 searching through another user's log when I clicked on one of the entries,
 and the same memory spike occurred again (around 450 MB this time). During
 both these times, hard disk usage was maximized, and it would seem like
 the entire system froze. I had to use Task manager to kill the second one
 (the first case stopped hogging more memory after it hit 500 MB). This
 defect is not in previous versions of Pidgin.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2561>
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