[Pidgin] #8292: Excessive memory usage in winpidgin (hundreds of MB)

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#8292: Excessive memory usage in winpidgin (hundreds of MB)
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 Reporter:  Revenant         |           Owner:  datallah
     Type:  defect           |          Status:  new     
Component:  winpidgin (gtk)  |         Version:  2.5.4   
 Keywords:  memory leak      |   Launchpad_bug:          
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 Since 2.4 or so my Pidgin has been using large amounts of memory when left
 running. Using [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
 us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Sysinternals Process Explorer] to monitor
 Working Set, Private Bytes, and Virtual Size, Private Bytes expands to
 hundreds of megabytes in size over time - I just closed a pidgin instance
 that had >700MB Private Bytes and >1000MB Virtual Size,  using most of the
 memory on the system. I have to restart Pidgin up to several times a day
 to free memory, and it is frequently using in excess of 500MB when I do
 so.

  * Windows XP SP3
  * Accounts: AIM, IRC (~18 channels across 2 servers), Jabber (Google
 Talk), MSN, YIM.
  * This behaviour occurs even with all plugins disabled.
  * GTK+ Runtime: 2.14.6
  * Glib Runtime: 2.18.3
  * Am '''not''' running any wallpaper changer software or changing
 wallpaper. Disabled [http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_nview.html NView
 Desktop Manager] (has multi-display wallpaper functionality) to no effect.
  * Possibly relevant shell extensions loaded:
 [http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_twinview.html NVidia TwinView,]
 [http://sourceforge.net/projects/runasadmin RunAsAdmin Explorer Shim]
  * Running debug version with logs saved from the last few executions, can
 post if desired. No crash reports as I've been having to forcekill it via
 Process Explorer.

 Any other information you could use? It's getting rather irritating to
 have system slowdown -> restart Pidgin every so often, multiple times per
 day with heavy use.

 (Possibly) Similar Tickets: #4722, #5620, #8156

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