Comment 14 for bug 307472

Thank you for your help!But,I am sorry for my poor English,which,is not my
mother tongue!Hence,I don't know how to solve it!Can you give me some
solutions or tell me what I should do?

Thank you very much!

Best wishes!

2009/1/6 Brian J. Murrell <email address hidden>

> Given that this is in fact a memory leak and will eventually OOM an
> Intrepid box, can we have a backport please?
>
> --
> multiload-applet-2 leaks memory
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307472
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>
> Status in "libgtop2" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in libgtop2 in Ubuntu Intrepid: New
> Status in libgtop2 in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-applets
>
> multiload-applet-2 memory usage appears to grow without bounds:
>
> :; uptime
> 09:37:18 up 13 days, 20:46, 7 users, load average: 0.10, 0.27, 0.27
> :; ps auxw | grep multiload
> bdowning 14684 0.2 23.3 704516 480568 ? S Nov28 53:06
> /usr/lib/gnome-applets/multiload-applet-2
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=25
> :; kill 14684
>
> (after it restarted)
>
> :; ps auxw | grep multiload
> bdowning 10424 2.0 0.4 190940 9876 ? S 09:35 0:00
> /usr/lib/gnome-applets/multiload-applet-2
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=25
>
> (about 20 minutes later)
>
> :; ps auxw | grep multiload
> bdowning 10424 0.3 0.5 191560 10656 ? S 09:35 0:04
> /usr/lib/gnome-applets/multiload-applet-2
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=25
>
> I did not open the system monitor window after I killed it, the memory
> growth happens over time naturally.
>
> :; lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 8.10
> Release: 8.10
>
> :; dpkg -l | grep gnome-applets
> ii gnome-applets 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
> Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - binary f
> ii gnome-applets-data 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
> Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - data fil
>
> :; uname -m
> x86_64
>