Memory leak in sensors panel plugin

houghi houghi at houghi.org
Wed Aug 26 15:35:19 CEST 2015


On 2015-08-26 14:43, Weedy wrote:
> I use coretemp, i8k, and nvidia sensors.
> 
> For the test I nuked the sensors plugin and added it back with only
> "core 0" from the coretemp-0 sensor.
> One second refresh. It always starts up around 50mb RSS, and I end up
> killing it around 85+.
> 
> After running this a few times I think the leak is the the general
> result fetching code.

It could well be the coretemp-0 pushing code on your machine. That is 
why you need to test the rest as well.

> While I didn't specifically try fans only next,
> everyone should have coretemp. And if everyone has coretemp then
> anyone else should be able to corroborate this.

And that is not the case, so your conclusion is in error.

houghi


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