Bug 251559

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

When using ktorrent's search feature to find a torrent in kickasstorrents.com memory use keeps increasing, filling the whole swap and making the system unusable after a few hours (+4GB memory used). When ktorrent is restarted the problem WILL persist, as the previous loaded site is loaded once more in the background, even if the "search" pane isn't selected.

Took me a while to find out that the reason was the search pane, therefore this is reproducible. only happens when i use kickasstorrents.com.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open ktorrent;
2. go to "Search", use torrentz.com search engine, and download a torrent from kickasstorrents.com;
3. leave it downloading.

Actual Results:  
Used memory increases, fills in the RAM, and SWAP, eventually it will be necessary to use CTRL + ALT + Backspace to kill Xorg;

If left overnight the ktorrent process will have crashed by the morning (i guess it also depends on the amount of ram installed).

Expected Results:  
i'd expect ktorrent to:

 (a) - Unload the contents of Search pane after it is used.

 (b) - have some kind of protection for memory leaks caused by the websites viewed. (probably this is more a task for the khtml or konqueror browser devs)

WORKAROUND: for the moment i search the torrent i want, start its download, then i return to the search pane and click on "home" to return to the base search webpage.