According to Jonathan Matthew, the current main developer of Rhythmbox, GNOME git commits '3dec1ff, fc1e8ca, 7ea940f and 7cdf4cd fix even more leaks'. See gnome bug #677738 for the full list.
Can Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users expect these very important patches for the *default* media player to reach their systems in the nearest future? Or at least backport them to the Quantal version so that someone with packaging knowledge would at least be able to backport the package to Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976534 Title: Rhythmbox cummulates memory in precise - probably memory leak Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application: Confirmed Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Rhythmbox memory usage is constantly increasing during long playing - hours. After one day allocates over 1GB of memory and never frees. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Apr 8 14:19:34 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) SourcePackage: rhythmbox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-06 (61 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/976534/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
