Bug#765828: x11-utils: xprop -spy leaks memory
Package: x11-utils
Version: 7.7+2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
pulseaudio-start-x11 uses xprop -root -spy to detect the existence of the
root window (and to kill the pulseaudio session when the x11 session exits).
Unfortunately, xprop -root -spy leaks memory on any property change, as far
as I can see.
This was reported to debian mailing lists here:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.pulseaudio/4456>
but I couldn't find a bug reported anywhere. At present, in an X session that
is around a month old, the single persistent xprop process, whose parent is
pulseaudio-start-x11, is consuming nearly 600MB of resident memory.
Best wishes,
Christophe
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages x11-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-11
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.1
ii libfontenc1 1:1.1.2-1
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1.1
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.2.6-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.12-2
ii libxcb-shape0 1.10-3
ii libxcb1 1.10-3
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxft2 2.3.2-1
ii libxi6 2:1.7.4-1
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-1
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.2-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1
ii libxv1 2:1.0.10-1
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.1.4-1
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.3-1
x11-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-utils suggests:
ii mesa-utils 8.2.0-1
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