Memory Leak glibc_2.0

[madcompnerd]

Ok, my laptop is running Fedora Core 2, and I use apt to keep it up to date
(mostly just gnome and it's deps). I was checking a program for memory leaks
today (using memprof, which uses strace I think) and it found all these leaks:
getaliasbyname_r@GLIBC_2.0
I had hundreds of them, and I have them on apps like gedit and others as well.
The laptop for the last few times I have used it I have noticed that X soaks
up RAM, and eventually I have to kill X or restart to make it usable again.
I did a quick google on that leak and I find like nothing. I'm using glib2
2.4.6, glibc 2.3.3.
I'm really lost as to why this is happening..

[CaptainPinko]

can't help you but this might be useful: http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/Glibc2-HOWTO-9.html

also you might want to post this to the Fedora people themselves.

[madcompnerd]

I think this is probably a build issue and not an actuall code problem, but I am not sure.