Bug#816872: wmbattery: memory leak in wmbattery

[Doug Torrance]

Control: forwarded -1 wmaker-dev at lists.windowmaker.org

On 03/05/2016 10:24 PM, Dave Johnson wrote:
> Package: wmbattery
> Version: 2.45-2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> wmbattery appears to have a memory leak.  When invoked with "wmbattery -w 2" it is leaking approx 350KB/minute on my system.  Eventually it runs out of memory and is killed by kernel.
>
>
> $ while sleep 300; do ps u $(pidof wmbattery); done
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.0  18524  6792 ?        Sl   21:24   0:00 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.1  20068  7976 ?        Sl   21:24   0:01 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.1  21604  9404 ?        Sl   21:24   0:01 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.1  23160 10588 ?        Sl   21:24   0:02 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.1  24696 12208 ?        Sl   21:24   0:03 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.1  26164 14032 ?        Sl   21:24   0:03 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.1  27700 15464 ?        Sl   21:24   0:04 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.2  29644 17240 ?        Sl   21:24   0:05 wmbattery -w 2
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> davijoh3 29894  0.2  0.2  31180 18964 ?        Sl   21:24   0:05 wmbattery -w 2

Thanks for your report!  I'll look into it.  (Also forwarding upstream.)