On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 15:34:59 +0100, Christophe Rhodes wrote: > 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. > I replied to that report at the time, and I'm going to make the same reply now. Somebody needs to send the patch to the xorg-devel list to get it reviewed/applied upstream. Cheers, Julien
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