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network-manager-applet package

  1. Bug #780602
  2. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 780602

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Alex Chiang (achiang) wrote : Re: nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a while

This is still extremely reproducible on 12.04.

achiang@yew:~$ uptime
 11:32:29 up 2 days, 2:22, 7 users, load average: 0.23, 0.26, 0.33

achiang@yew:~$ smem -k -t
  PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS
 1930 achiang /usr/lib/indicator-session/ 1.0M 448.0K 481.0K 3.2M
 1933 achiang /usr/lib/indicator-applicat 688.0K 632.0K 654.0K 3.1M
 1924 achiang /usr/lib/indicator-datetime 1.1M 732.0K 768.0K 3.6M
 1925 achiang /usr/lib/indicator-sound/in 1.1M 792.0K 859.0K 3.7M
 1928 achiang /usr/lib/indicator-printers 1.4M 1.5M 1.7M 7.2M
 1929 achiang /usr/lib/indicator-messages 580.0K 1.9M 2.0M 5.1M
 4689 achiang /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify- 16.0K 4.1M 4.4M 11.2M
 1861 achiang nm-applet 2.6M 7.6M 8.0M 15.6M
 1981 achiang /usr/lib/indicator-appmenu/ 2.0M 10.9M 11.0M 13.5M
 1851 achiang unity-2d-panel 6.3M 16.8M 18.3M 26.8M

Look at nm-applet vs the other indicators. 15.6M of RSS vs the others which is like ~3M seems really wrong.