I'm working on reducing memory use in packagekitd, and so far progress has been very good.  I've opened 4 memory-related PRs against PackageKit and libdnf this week, and locally I've reduced memory use at idle by almost 90% (I can reliably cause stock packagekitd to use ~ 700MB of RAM in a couple of minutes, but a patched version will free most of its memory and shrink to around 75MB.)

However, I've hit a possibly minor road block.  I haven't fixed all of the leaks originally reported; valgrind still reports some leaks in my patched builds, but most of the call stack is unresolved, so I can't locate the problems in order to address any remaining issues.

I'm running 'valgrind --leak-check=full --num-callers=25 /usr/libexec/packagekitd', running for a while, and then exiting with Ctrl-C.  When I exit, I get a list of leaks, most of which contain unresolved symbols.  I see the same thing when I run Fedora's builds (in which case, debug info appears to be provided by debuginfod-client), or when I run my own builds (in which case I'm installing the debuginfo and debugsource packages produced by the local build.)

Does anyone have any hints for improving the information I get from valgrind?
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