SketchyBar CPU helper memory increase

[hxhelm]

When running the CPU usage + SketchybarHelper setup, I have noticed that the memory and ports of the helper process keep increasing. Due to my limited C knowlege, I can't point out what might be causing the problem or debug further.

I am running on macOS 14.0 on an M2 processor.

[FelixKratz]

I am not seeing any leaked bytes for the helper process, could you attach the profiler output that leads you to believe that there is a memory leak?

[hxhelm]

I tried running leaks helper, but it also does not show any leaks. What tool were you using in the screenshot? I can try again with other tools.

Maybe the leaks output is helpful nevertheless:

Process 61481 is not debuggable. Due to security restrictions, leaks can only show or save contents of readonly memory of restricted processes.

Process:         helper [61481]
Path:            /Users/USER/*/helper
Load Address:    0x100680000
Identifier:      helper
Version:         0
Code Type:       ARM64
Platform:        macOS
Parent Process:  ??? [1]

Date/Time:       2023-10-22 18:36:52.817 +0200
Launch Time:     2023-10-22 18:35:37.313 +0200
OS Version:      macOS 14.0 (23A344)
Report Version:  7
Analysis Tool:   /usr/bin/leaks

Physical footprint:         1793K
Physical footprint (peak):  1809K
Idle exit:                  untracked
----

leaks Report Version: 4.0
Process 61481: 205 nodes malloced for 10 KB
Process 61481: 0 leaks for 0 total leaked bytes.

I only notices the increased memory in the Activity Monitor. With a fresh start, the helper process only has about a MB of memory usage and 15 ports, but it increases every few seconds and reached hundreds of MB and ports once.

This is after a few minutes:

versus a fresh start:

[FelixKratz]

I will have an eye out for this. I may just remove the helper from the dotfiles and replace it with a simple script using ps and awk to get all the relevant informations for the cpu item.

[FelixKratz]

Should be fixed.