Help with Nepomuk mem leak

Andreas Hartmetz ahartmetz at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 16:56:35 GMT 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Sebastian Trueg <trueg at kde.org> wrote:
> Most of you probably heard of or experienced the mem leaks in Nepomuk,
> mainly the filewatch service. Well, I need help in finding the reason.
> I cannot read much from the valgrind output and I have no idea how to
> continue looking for the problem.
> So I would be happy about any help with this matter.
> If you are even ready to dig into the problem yourself then you can
> start the service via
>
> "nepomukservicestub nepomukfilewatch"
>
> Its code is located in kdebase/runtime/nepomuk/services/filewatch. But
> most of the work is done by libnepomuk in
> kdelibs/nepomuk/core/resourcedata.cpp and Soprano in
> kdesupport/soprano/client.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
Have you tried valgrind's massif tool? If so, what did you find?
massif is the tool of choice to find memory "leaks" where the pointer
is not lost.




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