I have a similar problem, right now my pidgin's virtual size is over 25GB and still growing. Of course the real memory used isn't anywhere near that (and I only have 4GB on this laptop anyway).
top - 16:29:17 up 2 days, 18:09, 9 users, load average: 0.18, 0.29, 0.34 Tasks: 152 total, 3 running, 141 sleeping, 8 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 9.3%us, 2.8%sy, 0.2%ni, 87.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4042480k total, 4002780k used, 39700k free, 241128k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 2515720k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7957 hyc 20 0 1236m 473m 40m R 21 12.0 779:00.84 seamonkey-bin 16398 hyc 20 0 25.1g 169m 25m S 2 4.3 15:56.77 pidgin 24324 hyc 24 4 19100 1344 988 R 1 0.0 0:00.22 top This is pidgin 2.5.4 on Intrepid. -- Pidgin has resource leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
