Bug#635691: hamster-applet: memory leak when running under xfapplet

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: hamster-applet
Version: 2.32.1-1
Severity: normal


Hamster has a moderately bad memory leak (after a few hours it gets to swap and being really slow).
This may only be when running under XFCE's xfapplet panel plugin that allows gnome plugins to be used in the xfce panel.  Also of note is that I was doing a lot of retagging and category changes, and generally getting used to how the program works over the past three days.  I've resorted to removing xfapplet contain hamster from the panel and then adding it back.  That is sufficient to kill hamster and release memory.  If it isn't xfapplet specific then the severiy should probably be raised.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hamster-applet depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.32.4-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  python                        2.6.7-1    interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-cairo                  1.8.8-1+b2 Python bindings for the Cairo vect
ii  python-dbus                   0.84.0-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-evolution              2.32.0-1   Python bindings for the evolution 
ii  python-gconf                  2.28.1-3   Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-3   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnomeapplet            2.32.0-1   Python bindings for the GNOME pane
ii  python-gobject                2.28.6-4   Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2                   2.24.0-2   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-wnck                   2.32.0-1   Python bindings for the WNCK libra
ii  python-xdg                    0.19-3     Python library to access freedeskt
ii  python2.6                     2.6.7-3    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python2.7                     2.7.2-3    An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages hamster-applet recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme              3.0.0-4    GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  python-notify                 0.1.1-2+b3 Python bindings for libnotify

hamster-applet suggests no packages.

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