#913240 geoclue-2.0: Unreasonably high memory usage (memory leak?)

Package:
geoclue-2.0
Source:
geoclue-2.0
Description:
geoinformation service
Submitter:
Amaury Pouly
Date:
2020-12-25 14:39:02 UTC
Severity:
important
#913240#5
Date:
2018-11-08 16:28:47 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,
the geoclue daemon randomly starts using a lot of memory. It frequently uses
more than 1Gio of memory, and does not seem to free any memory when it starts
doing so which suggest a memory leak.
This can introduce serious problems because the memory increase can be
relatively quick and eventually lead to heavy swapping and/or OOM.
I have no been able to pinpoint under which circumstances it happens,
the system log does not condition any information related to geoclue that
could help debug the issue.
#913240#10
Date:
2019-05-03 09:22:57 UTC
From:
To:
After running at high cpu for 20-minutes on my pc, geoclue is now hogging
11 gigs of memory.
#913240#15
Date:
2020-12-25 14:36:50 UTC
From:
To:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:28:47 +0100 Amaury Pouly <amaury.pouly@gmail.com>  wrote:
 > Dear Maintainer,

Hello,

 > the geoclue daemon randomly starts using a lot of memory. It
frequently uses
 > more than 1Gio of memory, and does not seem to free any memory when
it starts
 > doing so which suggest a memory leak.
 > This can introduce serious problems because the memory increase can be
 > relatively quick and eventually lead to heavy swapping and/or OOM.
 > I have no been able to pinpoint under which circumstances it happens,
 > the system log does not condition any information related to geoclue that
 > could help debug the issue.

Do you think you could check it this is still an issue with the version
currently in stable/buster (2.5.2-1) and/or with the version I just
uploaded in unstable (2.5.7-1)?

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville