Bug 184925

Summary:	Akregator leaking memory when fetching all feeds
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	osterfeld, toke
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 2009-02-19 12:05:48 UTC

Version:           1.4.0 (using KDE 4.2.0)
Compiler:          GCC 4.1.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Long-running Akregator processes end up consuming gigabytes of memory, slowing the whole system to a crawl. It would appear that there is a memory leak when fetching all feeds.

How to reproduce:

- Open Akregator with several feeds
- Watch the process' memory usage in 'top' or similar utility
- Click "Fetch all feeds"
- Memory usage increases by (in my case) several megabytes.

The increase in memory usage is consistant each time the "fetch all feeds" button is clicked, and appearantly also for automatic feed updates.

Comment 1 Frank Osterfeld 2009-02-19 12:17:24 UTC

I fixed a memleak in libsyndication leaking feed data for RSS 1.0 (i.e. RDF) feeds. (in trunk, atm). It still needs investigation if this fixes the issue completely.

Comment 2 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 2009-02-21 14:48:29 UTC

Will this be backported to the 4.2 branch? I would test it in trunk, but I don't have a KDE build environment setup, and unfortunately doesn't have the time to look into it for the time being...

Comment 3 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 2009-04-16 00:44:40 UTC

I've had the 4.2.1 version of Akregator running for several days (even weeks) now without seeing a memory leak.

Comment 4 Frank Osterfeld 2009-04-16 22:59:46 UTC

Thanks for the feedback - I consider it fixed then and close.