[Pidgin] #6522: Pidgin's memory usage quickly grows to over 2GB

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#6522: Pidgin's memory usage quickly grows to over 2GB
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Reporter:  ceagan  |       Owner:  lschiere    
    Type:  defect  |      Status:  new         
Priority:  minor   |   Component:  unclassified
 Version:  2.4.3   |    Keywords:              
 Pending:  0       |  
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 Every few days or so, the running Pidgin application begins to eat RAM. I
 have the System Monitor application in my Gnome Panel, but I am usually
 too slow to notice until my system begins to lag. I quickly click the
 System Monitor and it comes up slow. My system is barely usable, because
 Pidgin begins to eat the swap space. If I act quickly, I can kill it. Once
 the process is killed, all the memory returns.

 The first time I thought it was a fluke, but now it has happened at least
 5 times over the past three weeks. I half-wish that this issue was easier
 to produce. I even looked for a program that could spawn a child process,
 and limit the memory usage so that if it happened again, my system would
 still be usable enough to gather some information about the problem, but I
 could not find such a program.

 The plug-ins that I have running are
  - "Contact Availability Prediction-2.4.3"
  - "History-2.4.3", "Nautilus Integration-0.8"
  - "Psychic Mode-2.4.3"
  - "Text Replacement-2.4.3"
  - "Timestamp-2.4.3"

 I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).

 I cannot guarantee that the following were true for all occurrences of the
 bug, but
  - I think a conversation window was open every time
  - At least one time, I was loading the Eclipse IDE when it happened

 I am happy to provide any further information that may assist in
 determining the cause of the memory leak.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6522>
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