Bug 128574 – arts 3.5.x memory usage increases each time an ogg or mp3 is played

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Matthew Stapleton 2006-04-02 15:10:13 UTC]

arts 3.5.x series doesn't free all the memory it's using after playing a sound file that uses the akode plugin such as ogg or mp3 files.  Since KDE uses ogg files for sound notifications artsd's memory usage can increase quite a lot after a few days of using KDE.

To quickly test this bug hold down backspace for a few seconds in Konsole.  When all the sounds stop playing artsd's memory usage will be higher then it was before.

Here is the KDE bug report: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118291

I have attached the patch which fixes this memory leak as well as patches for the artsplugin-akode and kdemultimedia 3.5.2 ebuilds.

[Comment 1 Matthew Stapleton 2006-04-02 15:12:15 UTC]

Created attachment 83766 [details, diff]
kdemultimedia_akode_fix_memory_leak.patch

Patch to kdemultimedia to fix the artsd memory leak.

[Comment 2 Matthew Stapleton 2006-04-02 15:13:04 UTC]

Created attachment 83767 [details, diff]
artsplugin-akode-3.5.2.ebuild.patch

[Comment 3 Matthew Stapleton 2006-04-02 15:13:27 UTC]

Created attachment 83768 [details, diff]
kdemultimedia-3.5.2.ebuild.patch

[Comment 4 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-04-02 16:09:26 UTC]

Matthew: I'm sure you meant another upstream bug.


herd: anyone still using aRts? I can apply and let our users test, but can't myself.

[Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-04-02 16:21:06 UTC]

I should have changed the bug status, I'm working on it :)

[Comment 6 Matthew Stapleton 2006-04-02 17:00:26 UTC]

Here is the correct upstream bug link: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119504

[Comment 7 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-04-02 17:05:13 UTC]

Thanks for reporting, applied, tried and committed :)

[Comment 8 Matthew Stapleton 2006-06-11 17:44:00 UTC]

Reopening for KDE 3.5.3

[Comment 9 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-06-12 12:26:33 UTC]

Uh, thanks Matthew. Included in my patch set for the next revision bump.

[Comment 10 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-06-14 17:49:12 UTC]

new revisons in cvs.