memory leaks leading to performance issues in global menu

[Marc Deslauriers]

Since upgrading to saucy, I've seen a lot of memory consumption with unity-panel-service, leading to menus taking a second or two to draw when simply hovering over File, View, etc.

mdeslaur@mdlinux:~$ uptime
 07:31:12 up 4 days, 17:04, 10 users, load average: 0.42, 0.55, 0.45

mdeslaur@mdlinux:~$ ps aux | grep panel
mdeslaur 3331 2.4 5.1 1055552 410144 ? Ssl Oct17 163:52 /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity-services 7.1.2+13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19+kmemleak-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Tue Oct 22 07:26:46 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-13 (342 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-19 (63 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Johansen (jjohansen)]

affects me too, my panel service was over 645 MB RSS with one cpu pegged at 100% before I restarted my desktop (up time was about a week).