I am actually running it on the debug window right now. I was running
it in debug mode when it crashed. I did not post the file because it
has a lot of personal information. Any suggestions on how to strip
that out?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:19 AM, surfed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you run pidgin with the "--debug" option? Better even, start
> pidgin like this:
>
> pidgin --debug > debug
>
> This will write all debug messages from pidgin to the file "debug" in the 
> directory where you executed pidgin.
> After your box crashes post relevant part of debug here.
>
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> pidgin memory leak
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282502
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> Status in "pidgin" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: pidgin
>
> Release:
> Ubuntu 8.04
>
> Package Version:
> pidgin:
>  Installed: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
>  Candidate: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
>  Version of pidgin:
>  *** 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
>
> I expected to get an IM window so I can continue my conversation.
>
> What actually happens is, you notice a sluggishness on the mouse cursor, you 
> start to hear the HDD spin from the memory swapping. I run conky and I can 
> monitor my top 3 CPU and RAM hogs as well as percentage of ram used. Pidgin 
> goes to the top on both CPU usage and RAM usage. My 4 Gigs of RAM are maxed 
> out in a matter of seconds... slowly but surely the computer comes to a halt. 
> This was happening several times, and I noticed that the common factor was me 
> getting an IM that I did not initiate. Oh, and the IM window never makes it 
> to the screen.
>

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