A few versions of Ubuntu and EOG passed and in EOG v3.8.2 (Ubuntu 13.10) this bug is still there. I have watched a few dozen images in eog and not it is using 1.3 GB of memory! Am I kidding? No! See the attached screenshot.
** Attachment added: "eof with major memory leaks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/984303/+attachment/4086612/+files/Workspace%201_036.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984303 Title: EOG memory leak on viewing many jpeg images Status in Eye of GNOME: New Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: ------- jeegiz@hiuvlet:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 ------- jeegiz@hiuvlet:~$ apt-cache showpkg eog Package: eog Versions: 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.soften.ktu.lt_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status) --------- When viewing multiple jpg images, generated by 'motion' (webcam monitoring) software eog is leaking memory, after viewing several hundred images computer starts to slow down. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 15574 jeegiz 20 0 616m 39m 13m S 0 1.0 0:01.84 eog <---- 1 jpg file 15574 jeegiz 20 0 619m 43m 14m S 0 1.1 0:24.56 eog <--- 50 jpg files 15574 jeegiz 20 0 620m 51m 14m S 0 1.3 0:39.13 eog <--- 100 jpg files 15574 jeegiz 20 0 684m 107m 14m S 0 2.7 0:47.83 eog <--- 200 jpg files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/984303/+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
