GPM in Hardy seems to have a memory leak
Bug #196688 reported by
QuentinHartman
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-power-manager (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
I've been using Hardy on a new laptop for a few days and have run into a few bugs related to GPM. See #194719 for those details. Twice now I've also had GPM eat up RAM, to the point that the process was consuming all available (2GB) physical memory and was forcing stuff into swap. I don't know if this is related to the other bug I posted, but I'd call this critical, once it spirals out of control, it is quite difficult to recover from.
Any pointers on how to debug this or provide useful information to the devs would be appreciated, I don't really know how to approach something like this.
Related branches
Changed in gnome-power: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-power-manager: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-power: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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I can confirm this bug. GPM ate up all available physical memory except 16M and all swap too. This happened while playing the game pingus. I don't know yet how to reproduce it, though.