appmenu-gtk makes Nautilus leak memory and slows down desktop over time

[Deejay_TNT]

Binary package hint: appmenu-gtk

When leaving a computer on overnight (or, to make it even worse, for several nights) there's a noticeable decrease in desktop responsivness (the best way to describe it is: grab a window, like a terminal window, and move it around - it really continiously stops moving for a fraction of a second or so). Also, when looking in system monitor (during those slowdowns) - there's a high enough memory consumption for nautilus (over 900 Megabytes is what I noticed).

Ways to reproduce: leave the computer on, work on it with everyday tasks. In a day, desktop responsiveness will be much lower. In a few days - desktop will be almost unusable. Memory footprint for nautilus will rise.

Ways to stop: sudo service gdm restart helps.
WAY TO FIX: sudo aptitude remove appmenu-gtk

I fixed it permanently by uninstalling appmenu-gtk, as described here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1557451
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/nautilus-memory-leak-fix-ubuntu-1004.html
After uninstalling appmenu-gtk - nautilus no longer leaks, desktop is highly responsive and doesn't slow down over time.

Couldn't find an appropriate bug report (fot this issue in Natty, one of the previous bug reports way ONLY on memory leak, but not desktop responsiveness and it was for older version of Ubuntu), so filing a bug. This issue is really bothering me.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

Appmenu-gtk version: 0.2.1-0ubuntu3

If there's any additional information required, please let me know so I could provide it.

UPDATE: not sure that desktop responsiveness correlates with nautilus memory footprint, might as well be two separate bugs. I'm more bothered with desktop responsiveness.

[Deejay_TNT (idaho)]

OK, after looking for similar bugs I found some (which are NOT the same, but similar, so they DO not seem to be duplicates, but may shed more light on the issue):
These are:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-gtk/+bug/682786
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-gtk/+bug/787736
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/780602
(the last one provides MANY more links to other bugs, which also may be related).

Could anyone please take a look at them, and re-read this thread? I still cannot work on my computer with appmenu-gtk enabled due to slowdowns and memory leak.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Andre (ajx)]

Problem still present in Precise: Bug #952108