[Pidgin] #8498: memory leaks

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#8498: memory leaks
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 Reporter:  brian_j_murrell  |           Owner:  lschiere    
     Type:  defect           |          Status:  pending     
Milestone:                   |       Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.5.2            |      Resolution:              
 Keywords:                   |   Launchpad_bug:              
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Comment(by Dylan16807):

 I was having the same issue, but updating pango fixed it.

 Previously I had tracked two runs of a couple-month old pidgin install.
 First I ran Pidgin normally; it went about two weeks before hitting OOM at
 2GB.
 I marked Pidgin as large address aware so it could allocate up to 4GB, and
 it went around two weeks before crashing at the 10000 gdi handle limit,
 with 3.6GB memory allocated.
 I updated to Pidgin 1.5.4 but it had the same issues, leaking half a
 gigabyte in two days.

 Then I updated pango to 1.22.4 as suggested in #7999, and everything seems
 to be fixed.  Pidgin deallocates small amounts of memory as chat older
 than 4000 lines goes away, with the amount of Private Bytes barely
 changing over a few hours, and the GDI handle count not changing.

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