Memory leak: unity-panel-service is using 7.9 GiB of RAM

[Andy Chow]

I'm using

4.8.0-26-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 18 14:39:52 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Description: Ubuntu 16.10
Release: 16.10

unity:
  Installed: 7.5.0+16.10.20160906.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 7.5.0+16.10.20160906.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 7.5.0+16.10.20160906.1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I seem to have a memory leak. unity-panel-service is using 7.9 GiB of ram.

I'm not sure what else to report.

[Gilles Gagniard (gilles-gagniard)]

Are you by chance running owncloud client, or any other qt5 app creating an indicator in the top panel ?

If yes, this is probably a dupe of #1635577 ...

[Andy Chow (thegreatandychow)]

Gilles, I am not running owncloud. Default Ubuntu pretty much, I don't think (know) if there are any qt5 apps. I have chromium running. I use cron to to some btrfs things.

unity-panel-service now using 11.3 GiB of RAM.

OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080

I can do any tests you want.