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unity-panel-service needs much RAM and runs slowely

Bug #1245243 reported by Paul Greindl on 2013-10-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1199877: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The unity-panel-service is using a lot RAM (sometimes well over 700 MB) and is running really slow. Menus in the Globalmenu are not opening at all or only with a huge delay. In any case all the menus are becoming really sluggish.

Even got some people on high school coming and complaining about that they're not able to use their menus anymore...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity 7.1.2+13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Sun Oct 27 18:52:43 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-19 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Paul Greindl (paul-greindl) wrote on 2013-10-27:

Dependencies.txt Edit (27.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (45.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (316 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-10-27:

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Paul Greindl (paul-greindl) wrote on 2013-10-27:

Now I have reached the next level: unity-panel-service running at 100% and having the global menu to completely disappear now and then...

happens even on a Core i7 with 8GB RAM, so there is obviously something very wrong here. Renders many applications (GIMP, Firefox, LibreOffice) completely useless...