irssi, at least 0.8.9-r1 and 0.8.10_rc5 suffer from a memory leak when scripts are loaded, presumably in Irssi.pm, which causes irssi to segfault with the error "Out of memory!" every few days. This issue is solved by adding "--with-gc" to the configure arguments which causes garbage collection code to be included, thanks go to agaffney for that fix.
Further testing reveals adding --with-gc does not solve the issue, just slows it down.
sven 26697 0.6 4.3 21216 10848 pts/3 S+ Apr03 425:47 irssi My irssi now runs for about 1.5 months and I don't have any memory leak problems with 0.8.10_rc5-r1. 0.8.10_rc5 had a memory leak in its recode functions, that should be fixed with -r1. Could you verify this please?
Sorry, unable to reproduce. I have 18 scripts loaded and I don't experience memory leaks.