NetworkManager consumes over 1 GB memory

[Marcin Depinski]

Binary package hint: network-manager

1)
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

2)
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.6.6-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.6.6-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.6-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Network manager behaves and doesn't eat up all my ram.

4) After leaving the computer on for several days, the NetworkManager process consumes over 1GB memory. This requires a reboot every few days to free up memory. This has happend every time I left my notebook on for a few days at a time.
Below you see that NM is consuming 1.1GB memory.

depinski@marcin-t61p:~$ ps auxww | grep -i network
root 5309 0.6 36.4 1106344 750452 ? Ssl May02 19:07 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
root 5323 0.0 0.0 3536 1280 ? Ss May02 0:12 /usr/sbin/NetworkManagerDispatcher --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManagerDispatcher.pid
depinski 6892 0.2 0.4 32436 8364 ? S May03 8:41 knetworkmanager [kdeinit]
depinski 21888 0.0 0.0 3004 820 pts/2 R+ 01:30 0:00 grep -i network

[AndyMan1 (am1web)]

Just registered to chime in on this as well, as I couldn't find anything similar on the forums.

I'm currently experiencing the same problem with my laptop. I'll leave it sitting around for a few days, and finally notice that network-manager has jumped to over 1 GB in VmSize and about 500-700 in VmRss. Reboot solves the problem.

Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy, with KDE 3.5
network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5

Dell Inspiron b130 with a broadcom4311 (dell 1390) chipset. On a wireless connection using WPA encryption.