There is a small memory leak in fontconfig, patched on the mailing list here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2008-November/003032.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I just spent 45 mins tracking down a memory leak to find it had already been identified and patched. There hasn't been a fontconfig release since May and no commits to the GIT repository since June so I figured the ebuild might as well be bumped to include this patch? http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2008-November/003032.html I had a valgrind backtrace of a memory leak reaching this function but i foolishly overwrote the log file, here is a snippet from an earlier log, I was running valgrind on GNOME applets, in this case specifically the system monitor applet. ==9105== 80,672 (32,512 direct, 48,160 indirect) bytes in 45 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 221 of 225 ==9105== at 0x4C22E21: realloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/amd64-linux/vgpreload_memcheck.so) ==9105== by 0xBD4AD02: (within /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0) ==9105== by 0xBD4B794: (within /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0) ==9105== by 0xBD48221: FcFontRenderPrepare (in /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0) I have tested the patch and the leak vanished.
not sure why i was added to cc ... i dont deal with fontconfig (or fonts) at all
Thank you for report, Emopig. (In reply to comment #0) > There is a small memory leak in fontconfig, patched on the mailing list here: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2008-November/003032.html Please, read this discussion till the end. You'll find that upstream don't have any intentions to apply this patch as patch is broken.
