Severity note: the memory leak is bad enough to warrant higher severity, but there is an easy work-around.

Dear Maintainer,
KDE system monitor shows kmix is using 1.4GB of memory (not shared memory)
$ ps -lC kmix
F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ WCHAN  TTY          TIME CMD
1 S  1000  7086     1  0  80   0 - 529188 -     ?        03:10:57 kmix
which I think means 0.5G; perhaps the difference is shared memory?

Either way, the useage seems excessive.

See also the very similar bug #723520 which is reported fixed upstream and, I
guess, in some version of Debian.  That bug appears to concern an earlier
version of kmix but a later version of KDE than reported here, which concerns
the released versions in wheezy.


   * What led up to the situation?
System uptime 67 days.  My main use of audio is watching shows from hulu; I
believe these use flash.  I have also clicked on the volume icon and adjusted
the volume from time to  time.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Quit and restarted kmix.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
  This reduced memory use:
$ ps -lC kmix
F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ WCHAN  TTY          TIME CMD
1 S  1000 25101     1  1  80   0 - 166140 -     ?        00:00:00 kmix
and KDE system monitor report 10MB of memory.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
That my sound mixer would run without consuming large amounts of memory.