Scudcloud Eating up Stupid Amounts of RAM

[stieg]

ScudCloud Version

Tested on official package and top of dev tree

• v1.37-3-gcbe15de
• scudcloud-1.37-1.fc25.noarch

Distro and Desktop info

• Distribution: Fedora 25
• Version/Release: scudcloud-1.37-1.fc25.noarch
• Desktop environment: Gnome 3.22

Expected behavior

Scudcloud should not be a memory piggy

Actual behavior

Scudcloud is a memory piggy. See following PS info after startup:

$ ps -o command,vsize,rss,%mem,size 24034
COMMAND                        VSZ   RSS %MEM  SIZE
python3 -m scudcloud        3962112 1194328  7.3 2344188

The process is chewing up 3.9G of virtual mem, and has 1.19G resident!

Steps to reproduce

1. Start scudcloud
2. Get process id
3. run ps -o command,vsize,rss,%mem,size <PID>

This is likely a library bug or a python bug or something but needs something to track the issue:

[stieg@lucious scudcloud]$ rpm -qi python3
Name        : python3
Version     : 3.5.2
Release     : 4.fc25

[stieg@lucious scudcloud]$ rpm -qi qt
Name        : qt
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 4.8.7
Release     : 18.fc25

[CubeTheThird]

I too have been experiencing massive memory usage with the client. I've started using Rambox as an alternative until it can be addressed here.

[raelgc]

@CubeTheThird are you using Fedora too? Can you, please, paste the output for scudcloud --version?

[raelgc]

By the way, the original issue talks about the Qt4 version, no more available. Can you, please, open a new issue with all details requested?

[CubeTheThird]

I am on Arch Linux, but as of updating to version 1.62 (or perhaps a library update) the memory usage seems to be more stable. I'll create a separate ticket should this change.