Comment 10 for bug 424655

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Jeff Schroeder (sejeff) wrote : Re: Pulse audio memory leak

I wrote this hack handy to see if pulse was still leaking memory and thought I'd share:
while true; do
    echo -n "$(date +'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S - ')" >> pulse-audio-memleak.txt
    ps -o args=,rss= $(pgrep -f 'pulseaudio --start') >> pulse-audio-memleak.txt
    sleep 60
done

It seems that the ppa packages have fixed the bug. I'll know for sure tomorrow.
jeff@desktopmonster:~$ tail -f pulse-audio-memleak.txt
10/11/2009 12:52:26 - /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 15164
10/11/2009 12:53:26 - /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 14728
10/11/2009 12:54:26 - /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 14960
10/11/2009 12:55:27 - /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 15076
10/11/2009 12:56:27 - /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 15228
10/11/2009 12:57:27 - /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 15012
10/11/2009 12:58:27 - /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 15244