Memory Leak with Linux client

[jkinney23]

I am having some serious problems with my computer becoming unresponsive and my entire RAM and swap partition being chewed up when I get a notification from my ICQ client under Debian Stretch. It happens intermittently, but often. If there is a log file or something I can look at to help diagnose let me know where to find. I have only been able to recover by hard rebooting my machine.

[lieff]

Workaround for this:

echo 2 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
echo 80 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio

It's not fixes the leak, but at least app just crashes instead of system lock-up.