Recent taglib memleak introduced in 9b995544e
Scott Wheeler
wheeler at kde.org
Mon Oct 24 15:58:42 UTC 2016
I suspect what you're seeing is that the indexer is using the old version of TagLib, and the file introduced specifically is testing for that bug. I don't think that's really a bug of the TagLib developer sources.
-Scott
> On Oct 24, 2016, at 13:56, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
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> please cc to me as I'm not on the mailing-list.
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> I'm not sure if this bug is here for a longer time, but a binary file introduced in 9b995544e ( toc_many_children.mp3 ) causes taglib to eat my whole memory ( 20gbs ) and my system is unresponsive.
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> I know that this file is used only for testing purposes but as soon as I checked out the repository, baloo tried to index it and in the index it uses taglib to find out about mp3 information, and poof.
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> I tried to run the tests files and they run fine
> vlc also crashes trying to open the file (also using taglib)
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> Tomaz
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