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Serious memory leak in Linux Mint 18

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:08 pm
by anonbeat
For now and till I trace the problem just close the last.fm panel. It shouldl keep memory usage low

Serious memory leak in Linux Mint 18

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:49 pm
by anonbeat
The memory issue is caused by libcurl... Opened a bug to libcurl project. Maybe I am wrong but looks like it...

Serious memory leak in Linux Mint 18

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:07 am
by anonbeat
At the end this looks like a gnutls bug. They use way too much memory and they dont free it up once the transfer is done. It is not a libcurl bug.

For now the solution is to use libcurl4-openssl-dev package instead of the libcurl4-gnutls-dev one.