[Pidgin] #4174: RAM usage spikes seemingly at random, but with increasing frequency

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#4174: RAM usage spikes seemingly at random, but with increasing frequency
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Reporter:  elfprince13  |       Owner:  lschiere    
    Type:  defect       |      Status:  new         
Priority:  minor        |   Component:  unclassified
 Version:  2.3.0        |    Keywords:  RAM leak    
 Pending:  0            |  
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 seemingly at random when I launch Pidgin, the buddy window pops up, but
 with the buddy pane completely blank. this in itself is normal, but the
 buddies usually load after 30 seconds or so of connecting to servers (I
 have accounts for MSN, GTalk, Yahoo, AIM, and multiple IRC servers that I
 connect to). However sometimes it won't load at all past opening the buddy
 window, and Process Explorer reveals that RAM usage is steadily climbing,
 then it begins eating into the Page file, and eventually crashes the
 computer. At a certain point I can't even begin a new process to kill
 Pidgin and I have to do a hard reset of the computer. I've seen this in
 every version that I've used (approximately since 2.2.0), however
 upgrading pidgin usually fixes it for a few weeks, but then it begins
 happening with increasing frequency, up to multiple times a day.

 I am running Windows XP SP2 with a Pentium 3 processor and 512MB of RAM,
 my pagefile is set to 768MB.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4174>
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