[Bug 998521] Re: whoopsie process is leaking memory

[Clint Byrum]

This is a huge diff, not just "a few minor changes" IMO. Its sort of
shocking that glib adds so much in a a few "patch" releases. I know some
of these things are for non-Linux platforms, but its really quite hard
to separate them out.

If this is just a one line fix, why aren't we just cherry picking the
one line fix for this bug? Thats typically how we control regression
potential. I'm digging through the diff (34,000 lines!) but at this
point I can't really justify the time to review it all.

Can somebody update the test case to include a comprehensive test plan
so we can get enough test coverage, or re-upload with just the fix for
this bug?

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Title:
  whoopsie process is leaking memory

Status in Whoopsie Daisy:
  Fix Released
Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “whoopsie-daisy” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “glib2.0” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “whoopsie-daisy” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “glib2.0” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed
Status in “whoopsie-daisy” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Impact: stable update from the upstream serie including a fix for a
  leak affecting the default Ubuntu bug reporting tool (whoopsie)

  Development Fix: the fix is in upstream glib git and will be in q with
  the next update

  Stable Fix: the fix is a one liner, the new version has some extra
  changes

  Test Case: watch the whoopsie memory usage over time, it should be
  stable

  Regression Potential: it's glib, the update should be carefully tested

  I have a 12.04 server running for 7 days and today I noticed some things started to be swapped out.
  top shows:
    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
   1975 whoopsie  20   0 2649m 1.4g  484 S    0 18.5  14:05.67 whoopsie
  with 1.4g residential memory.

  There were 2 crashed applications, facter with .crash file is 2.8Mb and landscape-sysinfo of 17K so it does not look like it is related.
  I will keep the process running in case i can provide more information and will monitor the process to see whether it is leaking memory.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: whoopsie 0.1.32
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports:
   640:0:111:17379:2012-05-05 10:59:39.677061820 +0300:2012-05-05 10:59:39.673061820 +0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_landscape-sysinfo.0.crash
   640:0:111:2838166:2012-05-07 00:54:24.435092602 +0300:2012-05-07 00:54:19.759092709 +0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_facter.0.crash
  Date: Sat May 12 21:41:18 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1)
  SourcePackage: whoopsie-daisy
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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