Memory leak during operation of tvtime (xawtv)

Bug #1981110 reported by SergeyIT
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Bug Description

OS xUbuntu 22.04
tvtime version 1.0.11-6

Information in Task Manager
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Task PID RSS
(Befor start of tvtime/xawtv)
Xorg-core :0 -seet seet0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch 720 82.5MiB
(1 hour later)
Xorg-core :0 -seet seet0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch 720 1.1GiB
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It means ~1.0 GiB of memory leak in 1 hour.
After logout the memory is released.
The same is with gdm3 Display Manager.
Probably it happaned after one of the last update of the system - 1 month ago about.
The temporary solution for me is to make tvtime window invisible - minimise it or to move it to invisible workspace. In this case there is no memory leak.

System information:
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System:
  Host: Kernel: 5.15.0-40-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
    Distro: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5G41T-M LX2/GB v: Rev X.0x
    serial: MT7018K73202290 BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0504 date: 01/10/2014
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Xeon E5440 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
    L2: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2003 min/max: 2003/2833 cores: 1: 2003 2: 2003 3: 2003
    4: 2003
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel G41 (ELK) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.0.1
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lspci >
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03:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc AVerMedia DVD EZMaker
 Kernel driver in use: saa7134
 Kernel modules: saa7134
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Tags: jammy
Jürgen Gmach (jugmac00)
affects: launchpad → ubuntu
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SergeyIT (serge-i-t) wrote (last edit ):

In Debian - testing, release 11-updates (2022-07-04).
The same problem and temporary solution !

In Fedora 36.
$ uname -a
Linux fedora 5.18.10-200.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jul 7 17:21:38 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Memory leak in process Xwayland: ~ 1.0 Gb in 1 hour.
But leak exists if tvtime window is invisible (minimised or on another workspace)

Paul White (paulw2u)
affects: ubuntu → xawtv (Ubuntu)
tags: added: jammy
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