Memory leak ~1GB/24 hours
Bug #1133202 reported by
Anders Eriksson
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #905854: memory leak in unity-2d-panel and indicator-multiload.
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Bug Description
Running system load indicator 0.2 in unity on Ubuntu 12.10 with "CPU", "network" and "Hard disk" monitoring enabled causes the multiload-indicator process to grow with about 1 GB resident memory in 24 hours.
Looking at the memory maps in /proc/<pid>/maps it seems to be the [heap] that grows:
02512000-41c58000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
I ran gnome classic mode (with compiz) before and I did not notice this behaviour then, but it may have been leaking more slowly as I have 16GB of RAM and may have missed the growth then.
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Hi Anders,
thanks for filing the bug. This is a problem somewhere in the libappindicator library that the indicator uses :-(.
The indicator in raring (13.04) or at ppa:indicator- multiload/ stable- daily (https:/ /code.launchpad .net/~indicator -multiload/ +archive/ stable- daily) has been updated to work around that problem, so I suggest you upgrade to the version found there (gui or command line: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:indicator- multiload/ stable- daily; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install indicator- multiload) .
There is a backport pending for getting this version also into 12.10 and 12.04, but this might still take some time.
Hope that helps!
Michael