[raring] GNOME System Monitor leaks memory

[Alin Andrei]

GNOME System Monitor leaks memory in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, here's a screenshot with the memory usage after about 2-3 hours: http://i.imgur.com/ot5Q6ZG.png

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-system-monitor 3.6.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-2.6-generic 3.8.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 30 17:11:59 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-30 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-12 (18 days ago)

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

No response? It's pretty serious...

I'm attaching a valrgind log, but please note that I've only let GNOME System Monitor run for a few minutes because it kept my CPU close to 100% and the CPU temperature was getting close to 100C.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Should be fixed in 3.7.90-0ubuntu1.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/3.7.90-0ubuntu1

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Yes, the memory leaks finally seem fixed. Thank you very much Dmitry!

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Unfortunately it's not fixed. I've left it running for the night and this morning it was using more than 1GB of RAM: http://i.imgur.com/vRng63A.png

I'm using the latest version 3.7.90-0ubuntu1

Also, I've noticed the GNOME System Monitor memory usage increasing rapidly when upgrading a lot of packages using Synaptic Package Manager, maybe someone could check that out...? I'll try to reproduce it when I have lots of updates...

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thanks for the note, reopened the upstream bug too, we'll take a look into that.

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

My above observation seems to be true, I've tested this again: GNOME System Monitor was using ~15MB of RAM, then after I've used Synaptic to upgrade about 15 packages, the GNOME System Monitor memory usage has jumped to 124 MB.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 13.04 reached EOL on January 27, 2014.
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