Memory leak issue

[Nicola Jelmorini]

I have read other bug reports where the memory leak is declared as resolved, but at least on my system this is not true.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit with Unity desktop, and since when the PC starts and the indicator-multiload starts, the memory used constantly grows.
For example right now I have restarted the indicator, and after 10 minutes the memory is passed from 3 MB to 14.6 MB. This morning I have started my PC and from 09:00 AM to 14:30 PM the memory occupied was more than 300 MB.

[Jeroen (jeroen-d)]

I can confirm this, there is a huge memory leak on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit when using indicator-multiload 0.3. After a weekend memory usage was 2.4GiB.

As this is 100% reproducible I can provide extra logs/information if requested.

[billjoie (joie-bill)]

I also confirm. Over time, indicator-multiload builds up to use up to half of my RAM.

[Maciej Lopuszanski (mackos1-o2)]

yep, my indicator has eaten only* 500MB of ram :) laptop was running for few days and , multiple suspends during that time.

[Matti Laakso (matti-laakso)]

1.6 GiB memory use here after 24 hours or so. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.

[Juno (caretfine)]

I can confirm this too. After installing the app, my CPU usage rocketed to 100% (3.8 GB) while doing normal activities on my laptop that would not render my entire memory used.

Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.

[Ivan Mikheykin (diafour)]

Confirm memory leak on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit and Unity 2D.

[bigley.ling (bigley-ling)]

I even have this memory leak with Ubuntu 12.04 32bit.

[Nicola Jelmorini (jelmorini)]

With the last update, from the PPA, it seems that the memory leak issue is resolved. I have now my PC running since several hours, and the indicator-multiload still uses only 3.6MB.

[Nicola Jelmorini (jelmorini)]

I'm sorry, but my comment #8 of yesterday was too optimistic. In fact today I have rebooted my PC and now I can see that the indicator starts with 3MB of RAM, and the RAM consuming continues rapidly to grow. In a couple of minutes it's already at 9MB. In this moment while I'm writing this comment, the memory is already at 12MB.
It seems even worse than before :-(

[Albert Cutrona (acutbal)]

The same for me, v.0.3 and near 130 mb of RAM.

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

I'm currently seeing about 1GB of memory being used:

UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
mike 2483 2386 1 440641 965108 3 Sep28 ? 00:47:59 indicator-multiload

[Vlad Lesin (vlad-lesin)]

I have the same issue.

[Tim Wahrendorff (tim.timwahrendorff)]

Same Problem with Dell Latitude E5410 (12.04 64bit) I suspend often, after a week indicator-multiload clogs up to 1,5GB of RAM. I can see the memory use rising in realtime.

On the other hand the lenovo T420 (12.04 64bit) I use in office does not show this problem, indicator-multiload never clogs more than 12MB of RAM.

this let me think it has something to do with hardware. If you need any additional information regarding my machines hardware, please let me know which exactly and how to provide them.

[mdyn (tamerlaha-gmail)]

I have memory leaks detected on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit

[DavidJB (davidjb)]

Observing 3.0GB of actual RAM (not cache) being consumed on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit by this indicator. I'm using the version from the PPA.