Bug 201047

Summary:	The photos widget leaks into X memory
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	qqqqqqqqq9
Component:	Context View	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jajaxor, lfranchi
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.2-SVN
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description qqqqqqqqq9 2009-07-22 00:55:09 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.96)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

amarok2.2-SVN
steps to reproduce:
1. add the photos applet to your context view
2a. wait 20 hours
or 
2b. skip 20 songs

result: The xserver uses a lot of memory and xrestop claims, that amarok is guilty.

Without the photos widget this does not happen.

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-07-22 14:30:39 UTC

There have been a lot of reports for xorg memory leaks in various Amarok elements, but also with other applications, so I seriously suspect Xorg to be the culprit. The developers at freedesktop.org are aware of that problem since about a year...
Merging this with bug 197242

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 197242 ***

Comment 2 jajaX 2009-07-23 12:33:04 UTC

Hi ! (sorry for my bad english !)

xorg problem, hum...

I have got this problem only with amarok 2.x. any other software have got this problem.

I think, it's a amarok's bugs with big collection. it will better will SQL support come back (as amarok 4.1 with SQLite and after SQL) for big collection.

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-07-23 13:05:04 UTC

Actually, Amarok uses MySQL, not SQLite :)
Also, this is specific to the photo applet which is at it's first commit, really nothing to worry about...
Maybe a hint: these memory losses seem to happen only when something is downloaded from the web, be this Cover pictures (as in 197242) or pictures from flickr as in this report.