#1121360 xfishtank: has memory leak

Package:
xfishtank
Source:
xfishtank
Description:
turns your X root into an aquarium
Submitter:
Bernd Schumacher
Date:
2025-11-25 07:30:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1121360#5
Date:
2025-11-25 07:22:18 UTC
From:
To:
after starting "/usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu"
the memory usage grows endless. Example:

root@tvx11-forky:~# while :; do ps -o pid,vsz,rss,args -C xfishtank; sleep 30; done
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 844552 93888 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 846796 96280 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 849964 99552 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 853264 102820 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 856564 106092 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 859864 109360 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 863164 112632 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 866332 115900 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 869632 119176 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
    PID    VSZ   RSS COMMAND
   2092 872932 122448 /usr/games/xfishtank -f 15 -speed 150 -b 30 -nomenu
^C