Apport ("Report a bug") uses insane amount of memory
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apport
While reporting this bug, using apport-gtk (through "/usr/share/
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15263 daniel 20 0 751m 657m 9112 S 0 21.8 0:08.55 apport-gtk
15657 daniel 20 0 751m 649m 784 S 0 21.5 0:00.07 apport-gtk
Yes, according to pstree, these two processes belong to the single instance of creating one report.
bash-
I've noticed this with apport-qt (launched through ubuntu-bug), when reporting 3 bugs simultaneously made the system start swapping.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: apport 1.0-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
After forcefully quitting the process (which is required because of bug 337382), this leaves one apport-gtk process running (pid 15657 - the one started later(?)).