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gnome-applets package

  1. Bug #1510484
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1510484

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rew (r-e-wolff) wrote :

Apparently this problem affects me more than others:

 wolff 2575 0.0 47.1 48272128 15494168 ? Sl 2016 161:12 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/cpufreq-applet

On my system, the applet had consumed 48 Gigabytes of memory before I noticed..... It was started so long ago the date is mentioned by "ps auxww" as "2016".