Here is the original bug report at http://bugs.kde.org https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231098 According to the devs there, it probably has something to do with libjpeg. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Amarok 2. Play some music files with cover art fetching on. 3. Actual Results: Amarok starts to eat memory till it fills up all the RAM and SWAP available. metin-sfco loxs # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p2 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.ludost.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en bg" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/turbogears2" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fontforge fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg kde libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl semantic-desktop session spell spl sqlite ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en bg" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nv nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please post your emerge --info. Also, if you have portage-utils please post the output of "qlist -IUv kde-base | grep jpeg". If not, please post the output of "grep jpeg /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*/USE"
emerge --info is in my first post (sorry if that's not the right place to put it) loxs@metin-sfco ~ $ qlist -IUv kde-base | grep jpeg kde-base/krdc-4.4.1 (handbook jpeg) kde-base/okular-4.4.1 (chm crypt djvu ebook handbook jpeg pdf ps tiff) loxs@metin-sfco ~ $
(In reply to comment #2) > emerge --info is in my first post (sorry if that's not the right place to put > it) It is in the correct place. Please ignore me as I must have been blind. > loxs@metin-sfco ~ $ qlist -IUv kde-base | grep jpeg > kde-base/krdc-4.4.1 (handbook jpeg) > kde-base/okular-4.4.1 (chm crypt djvu ebook handbook jpeg pdf ps tiff) > loxs@metin-sfco ~ $ Please enable the jpeg2k use flag (either globally in /etc/make.conf or specifically for kdelibs in /etc/portage/package.use[/*]) and rebuild the affected packages - emerge -UDavN world
Enabled jpeg2k, recompiled packages. loxs@metin-sfco ~ $ qlist -IUv kde-base | grep jpeg kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.1-r1 (acl alsa bzip2 fam handbook jpeg2k nls opengl semantic-desktop spell ssl) kde-base/krdc-4.4.1 (handbook jpeg) kde-base/okular-4.4.1 (chm crypt djvu ebook handbook jpeg pdf ps tiff) loxs@metin-sfco ~ $ The problem still persists. (no change at all, everything is the same like described here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231098
I'm closing this as invalid as reading the upstream bug it seems it was caused by an incomplete update of jpeg.
