memory leak in mate-indicator applets

[asilentninja]

Fresh install of Ubuntu MATE 18.04, left laptop running overnight and mate-indicator-applet-complete took up 5.6GB. This behaviour was also seen after updating the same laptop from 17.40 to 18.04.

Release: 18.04
Version: 1.20.0-1
Expected: not a lot of memory used
Reality: lots of memory used

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: mate-indicator-applet 1.20.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sat May 19 17:24:48 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-18 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: mate-indicator-applet
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mate-indicator-applet (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]