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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to transmission in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1973084 Title: transmission-daemon high RAM usage Status in transmission package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in transmission source package in Jammy: Fix Released Status in transmission source package in Lunar: Fix Released Status in transmission package in Debian: New Bug description: [ Impact ] There is a memory leak in transmission-daemon that was introduced by a faulty openssl3 patch. It has been reported that it's noticeable after a few hours of seeding/downloading torrent files, less than a day. [ Test Plan ] Being a memory leak, there is no immediate/quick test that can be performed, other than letting it run for a few hours and measure memory consumption "before" and "after". comment #5 mentions about 1Gb of RAM after 18h of runtime. #comment 14 mentions 12Gb of RAM, but not for how long it was running. comment #20 says that after 24h using the patched version from a PPA build, the memory consumption was steady at 300Mb. I'd suggest a 24h test and that it should stay under 1Gb of RAM. [ Where problems could occur ] The patch loads the default and legacy openssl3 providers. This will potentially change the set of algorithms available to the application, compared to what was there before. That being said, the legacy provider is a conservative approach, and the likely result is that *more* algorithms will become available, and not less. This is also the approach I have seen in other applications that were rebuilt using openssl3 instead of openssl1.1. It does seem safer than the original patch, which was manually handling ciphers, in particular RC4, and, well, introduced the memory leak. [ Other Info ] Patch came from gentoo. [ Original Description ] Transmission uses a lot of RAM in ubuntu 22.04 server (arm64) runnign on a Raspberry Pi 4. It "eats" RAM and the RAM usage grows each hour until it crashes the system. I sideloaded transmission-daemon and its dependancies from debian 11 (arm64) locked the packages so apt won't update them and, ever since, this issue hasn't happened. Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release: 22.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/1973084/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
