Memory leak in sensors panel plugin

[Olivier Fourdan]

On 26 August 2015 at 15:35, houghi <houghi at houghi.org> wrote:

> 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.
> ​[...]
>

​I don't understand that sentence.
​


>
>
> 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.


​
Best way to investigate suspected memory leaks is to use valgrind.

Cheers,
Olivier
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