Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:56:25PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
> I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it
> links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet
> (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to
> what appears to be excessive. I did read the manual page about:
> 
>    "Conky is generally very good on resources. However, certain objects  in
>     Conky  are  harder  on resources then others....If  you  do use them,
>     please do not complain about memory or CPU usage, unless you think
>     something's seriously wrong..."
> 
> I am using those features, but I still think something is seriously

How does your .conkyrc look?

> wrong. The following is after running for 6.5 days:
> 
> top;
>   PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>   791 Modulok      1  96    0   280M   278M select  42:37  0.00% conky

  41631 rsmith       1  44    0 27532K  5460K select  33:32  0.00% conky
 
> ps -u;
>   USER      PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
>   Modulok   791  0.0 13.7 286708 284912  v0  S    Fri09AM  42:35.18 conky

     rsmith 41631  0.0  0.5 27532  5460  v0  S     3Dec07  33:31.68 conky -d

Fine here (FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 amd64)

Roland
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