Ubuntu
unity8 package

unity8-dash is leaking memory at ~1.7K a second

Bug #1364380 reported by Colin Ian King
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Critical
Michael Zanetti

Bug Description

Running smemstat, we can see that unity8-dash is consuming heap at around 1.7K *per second*

smemstat -p $(pidof unity8-dash) 10

(leave it to run for a while and you will see the heap growth stats)

running strace on the process shows anonymous mmap() increasing the heap every ~10 minutes or so. Over a 570 minute period I observed the process growing by 58MB, which works out to be ~140MB per day. This is a serious heap expansion memory leak.

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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

This seems to be leaking at the same rate as the leak in bug 1364368, so it may be a common library that's leaking

kevin gunn (kgunn72)
tags: added: touch-2014-10-30
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)
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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

I think it may be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtdeclarative-opensource-src/+bug/1364404/comments/3

kevin gunn (kgunn72)
tags: added: rtm14
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Victor Tuson Palau (vtuson) wrote :

Please reprioritise this bug to an earlier date

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Critical
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