Amarok 2.5.0 has a bad memory leak

[Bart Cerneels]

Hey Gerald.
Thanks for the data you gathered. It certainly proves we have a
memleak problem. As you point out it's probably related to the
playlist, but that is not directly a give and likely is not the only
memleak there is.
I'll have a go finding it before the next release anyway.

I'm sharing this with the developer list.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox at bzb.us> wrote:
> Just an FYI in case like me you leave amarok running at times... don't....
>
> Amarok memory leak when changing tracks
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298627
>
> Easily reproducible - just load up a playlist and
> select the repeat playlist option.
>
> The only plugins I am using are mass
> storage device and lastfm.
>
> I ran the following command to document the leak:
> top -b -d 150 -p 11866 > amarok.txt
>
> I then imported the results into a google spreadsheet you can view here:
> http://goo.gl/Q4bZw
>
> Memory utilization started out at 7.4% and ended up at 31.9% after approx 48
> hours.  The leak is steady and unrelenting.  I ran the same playlist under QMMP
> during the same period and memory utilization was steady at 2.5% throughout the
> period.
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