#614282 yacpi: memory leak when using -l "loop every second" option

Package:
yacpi
Source:
yacpi
Description:
ncurses based acpi monitor for text mode
Submitter:
Artur Górniak
Date:
2026-04-10 08:31:01 UTC
Severity:
minor
#614282#5
Date:
2011-02-20 19:36:37 UTC
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When using -l option of yacpi its memory consumption grows over time.
for example:

:~$ ps xau | grep yacpi
root      2544  1.0  7.1  37996 36716 pts/5    S+   17:14   2:07 yacpi -l
root      2827  1.0  0.1   2116   864 pts/7    S+   20:35   0:00 yacpi -l

Artur Górniak
#614282#10
Date:
2011-02-20 21:01:08 UTC
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severity 614282 minor
thanks

Hi,
* Artur Górniak <ag-debian@argo.pl.eu.org> [2011-02-20 21:13]:

thanks, confirmed. i don't know yet if this is in yacpi or libacpi.
given that this was unnoticed in the past years, i downgrade the severity of
this bug. will hopefully have some time to debug it soon.

cheers
nico
#614282#17
Date:
2011-02-20 21:47:39 UTC
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You are probably right.

I saw this problem when debugging cpufreq few months ago.
Most people do not run yacpi -l for more then few hours.
I was doing some tweaking in cpufreqd configuration on my old
travelmate 233 and after few days I've got out of memory.

Just to add information that it (memory leak) never ends ;-).

Greetings

Artur Górniak