hal ( 0.5.9 ) memory leak

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VanDan · Post by **VanDan** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:15 am

Greetings.

Twice now ( and recently ) I've had to restart hal ( /etc/init.d/hald restart ) on our DB server, because it grew to consume 200MB.

Hal is in use for automounting ( in gnome ). We have a nice collection of external IDE drives with USB2 connections, and we do a full backup onto one of these each night. I'm not sure what else hal might be doing, but as far as I know, this is it.

Any ideas?

VPN-User · Post by **VPN-User** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:38 am

My hald ate around 1,5GB last time I checked. CPU also was at 100%.

What should be downgraded to stop this?

ToeiRei · Post by **ToeiRei** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:51 am

what about filing a bug?

/me points to bugs.gentoo.org...

Rei

VPN-User · Post by **VPN-User** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:07 am

Yeah. But I don' t think this is Gentoo-specific. I googled a little and found people with this problem on other distributions, too (e.g. Ubuntu).

VPN-User · Post by **VPN-User** » Wed May 14, 2008 11:00 pm

Problem is still there and no activity on bugzilla

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Fri May 16, 2008 1:59 am

do people really use hal? -hal was one of the good decisions I think I made some time back.

VPN-User · Post by **VPN-User** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:10 am

Actually, installing and using HAL is recommended in the official Gentoo Gnome Howto...