Ubuntu
network-manager package

NetworkManager 0.7.0 rapidly eats up all memory

Bug #313296 reported by Pete Johnson on 2009-01-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #291074: memory leak in Network Manager Intrepid. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

Running Intrepid. Network manager rapidly consumes all memory (taking about 20 mins to eat up 1Gb), then shows connection as unavailable though network is still accessible. 1 of my 2 processors is at 100% while this is occurring, then once connection becomes "unavailable" drops to near 0%.

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Pete Johnson (pedrojuk) wrote on 2009-01-02:

Syslog taken following start of NetworkManager from shell Edit (17.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Pete Johnson (pedrojuk) wrote on 2009-01-02:

png of screenshot showing memory leak Edit (95.0 KiB, image/png)

Attached screenshot of system monitor showing memory leak.

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Pete Johnson (pedrojuk) wrote on 2009-01-02:

I identified a Texas Instruments ACX 100 wireless LAN card (which I'd forgotten all about!) and blacklisted it using the steps outlined by Mykro on bug report #291074. This appears to work around the problem.