indicator-applet uses extremely large amounts of memory
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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indicator-applet (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: indicator-applet
Probably a duplicate of #369539, but creating a new bug at Sebastien Bacher's direction.
Indicator-applet appears to have a memory leak. I upgraded to Lucid the day it was released, before that running a clean if somewhat old install of Karmic. In Karmic I did not experience the issue. Under normal usage, the indicator-applet process uses more and more memory until eventually things start dying from the OOM killer. To combat this, I have been watching the system monitor applet's memory usage graph until it reaches a high level, checking with top to find indicator-applet at the top of the memory usage stack (currently using 882m virt, 617m res 11m shr) and then kill the pid from the command line. I have to do this twice a day.
Expected behavior:
indicator-applet sits next to my clock and doesn't cause problems.
Actual behavior:
indicator-applet uses more and more memory over time until the system becomes unstable.
lsb_release -a:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
apt-cache policy indicator-applet:
Installed: 0.3.6-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.3.6-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 0.3.6-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
uname -a:
Linux motoko 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:09:38 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Further information available upon request.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: indicator-applet 0.3.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 4 09:28:56 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Related branches
- Ken VanDine: Pending requested
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Diff: 174 lines (+27/-55)8 files modifiedAUTHORS (+1/-0)
ChangeLog (+12/-0)
configure (+1/-1)
configure.ac (+1/-1)
debian/changelog (+8/-0)
debian/patches/lp_690668.patch (+0/-44)
debian/patches/series (+0/-1)
src/indicator-messages.c (+4/-8)
tags: | added: patch |
Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Incomplete |
Is this still occurring for you? How long does it take to use this much memory? Is this in indicator-applet or indicator- applet- session?