206557 – games-fps/quake3 memory leak

Bug 206557 - games-fps/quake3 memory leak

Summary: games-fps/quake3 memory leak

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2008-01-18 18:07 UTC by dt
Modified:	2009-07-29 18:42 UTC (History)
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Description dt 2008-01-18 18:07:10 UTC

Source installation of ioquake3 (so far I have used quake3-1.34-rc3 and quake3-9999 which --version's to ioq3 1.35).  Starts from load using about 420mb of ram, after a while of playing ram goes up until system crash.  After playing a map and going back to main menu ram usage stays at it's increased amount (does not free memory from loaded map).  Even playing just one map will eventually explode.  Using ATI X1700 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run quake3
2. Play in singleplayer until it crashes (usually 30-40 minutes)

Comment 1 dt 2008-01-29 03:21:47 UTC

Updated to the latest ati-drivers (8.452 in portage, 8.01 from ati website) which were supposed to fix memory leak issues.  Probably still happens, but now the leak is much slower than before.

Comment 2 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2009-02-10 23:23:41 UTC

So this is rather an fglrx bug rather than a Quake3 bug?

Please update/mark bug accordingly.

Comment 3 dt 2009-07-29 18:06:10 UTC

Yes, it was an fglrx bug.  Has been fixed for a while now.

Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-29 18:42:21 UTC

Thanks for the follow up, we appreciate it :)