indicator-datetime MEMORY LEAK and CPU consumption (+dbus-daemon)

[indium]

indicator-datetime consumes ALL MEMORY and too much CPU time.
dbus-daemon also eats alot of CPU, but no memory leak apparently
just after a restart it now gives:

 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 4014 indium 20 0 27524 3188 868 S 67 0.1 4:06.56 dbus-daemon
 4306 indium 20 0 499m 152m 7572 S 38 4.0 2:21.62 indicator-datet
 4334 indium 20 0 49264 2672 2216 S 9 0.1 0:34.10 geoclue-master
.... etc

the memory consumption increases some 1MB per minute at the moment...

Same problem for unity as in unity 2d

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 1 12:00:26 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (15 days ago)

[indium (indium)]

this does not happen when running gnome3!

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[indium (indium)]

Hi,

okay, sorry for that. I thought that eating _all_ the memory available
would be a security issue.

I am now using the FLUXBOX window manager so that this indicator/dbus
leakage does appear.

I fear that I will run into problems with FLUXBOX when I have to use my
laptop for presentations, because connecting other displays/projectors
usually only works with gnome/unity, which is missing now.

Anyway, I think this is an IMPORTANT bug to solve! any help would
appreciated (or suggestions or questions for more info).

thanks, indium

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 03:58:12PM -0000, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
> to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
> issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
> cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
> Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
> ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
> ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884701
>
> Title:
> indicator-datetime MEMORY LEAK and CPU consumption (+dbus-daemon)
>
> Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> indicator-datetime consumes ALL MEMORY and too much CPU time.
> dbus-daemon also eats alot of CPU, but no memory leak apparently
> just after a restart it now gives:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 4014 indium 20 0 27524 3188 868 S 67 0.1 4:06.56 dbus-daemon
> 4306 indium 20 0 499m 152m 7572 S 38 4.0 2:21.62 indicator-datet
> 4334 indium 20 0 49264 2672 2216 S 9 0.1 0:34.10 geoclue-master
> .... etc
>
> the memory consumption increases some 1MB per minute at the moment...
>
> Same problem for unity as in unity 2d
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
> ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Nov 1 12:00:26 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (15 days ago)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/884701/+subscriptions

[Dave Vree (hdave)]

The memory leak part of this is dup of #951496