Bug#871037: unknown-horizons: run slower and slower and uses more and more memory

[Markus Koschany]

On 06/08/17 14:59, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Package: unknown-horizons
> Version: 2017.1+ds-2
> 
> Hi.  When I played though the tutorial today, for the first time in a
> long time, the experience at the start was quite nice, but after a while
> the game became slower and slower.  A look at 'top' showed that the
> program was using a lot of memory (31% of my total), and all swap was
> spent.  At the end it was running so slow it was hard to use the game.
> 
> After I ended the game I did a test run in valgrind just starting and
> stopping the game (ie just visiting the main meny), and according to
> valgrind 200 MiB was lost and 400 MiB was indirectly lost.  In addition
> there were heaps of problems reported by valgrind about use after free.
> 
> I asked about excessive memory usage on #unknown-horizons
> (irc.freenode.net), and was told by user LinuxDonald that several fixes
> regarding memory usage should be fixed in version 2017.2.  Perhaps some
> of these fixes should be backported to Stretch?

The problem is what shall be backported? Are those bug fixes documented 
somewhere? Can you confirm that 2017.2 resolves all memory issues and 
the "sluggishness"?

Markus