Memory leak in Networkmanager when switching between wired/wireless
Bug #214593 reported by
Harm van Bakel
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-manager
After unpluggin the network cable, NetworkManager switches to the wireless network as expected, but the memory usage of the NetworkManager process increases by about 1-1.5mb. When switching back to wired network the same thing happens, and after repeated plugging/unplugging the network cable, the memory usage just keeps growing. I'm using the knetworkmanager applet in kubuntu (Hardy development branch, release 8.04, all updates installed), so I'm not sure if the problem is in NetworkManager or knetworkmanager.
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I agree ! This is a VERY big issue. Here, I have 2 laptops : my old one, a core duo Macbook running Debian sid (1.25Go of RAM) and my brand new Dell XPS M1530 (4Go of RAM).
On the end of the day, on the Macbook, NetworkManager eats nearly all the RAM. On the end of the day, on the Dell XPS, NetworkManager eats 9.2% of the RAM, which result to 377Mo approx.
This means that the bug is not linked to Ubuntu, but more a global NetworkManager issue. Please note that I don't switch networks during this period : I stay on my WLAN using WPA2.