Gaim laftover processes memory eating problems

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To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:06:04 +0200

Has anyone else had the problem with gaim leaving behind
a whole lot of processes?

I started gaim 6 hours ago, and already I have 173 processes
listed as "gaim" under 'ps ax'. Each of these seems to require
a good amount of memory too.

Afew lines from top:
20654 hk 15 0 34600 14m 9m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.00 gaim
20739 hk 15 0 34600 14m 9m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.00 gaim
20759 hk 16 0 34600 14m 9m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.00 gaim
16358 hk 15 0 34592 14m 9.9m S 0.0 1.4 0:37.29 gaim
20465 hk 15 0 34604 14m 9.9m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.00 gaim
20468 hk 15 0 34604 14m 9.9m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.00 gaim
20486 hk 16 0 34604 14m 9.9m S 0.0 1.4 0:00.00 gaim

Datapoints:
-I only use the MSN functionality.
-It seems that only one of the processes actually uses cpu time.
-I run gaim-1.5.0-1.fc4 under FC4.
-Have had this problem ever since this gaim version came out.
-Gaim will not exit by itself, after a while X asks wether I
 want it killed.
-Running kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp

$ free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1034544 1017820 16724 0 1728 145504
-/+ buffers/cache: 870588 163956
Swap: 1020024 831216 188808

Every day for weeks I have to do a 'killall -s9 gaim' after about
7 hours, or else programs like evolution and firefox dies due to
lack of memory.

-HK

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