Memleak

[UndiFineD]

Binary package hint: software-center

software center consumes 100MB more memory per installed software
I am at 1.2GB memory now

[UndiFineD (k.dejong)]

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 3022 keimpe 20 0 1727m 1.2g 21m S 5 35.9 32:03.21 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center

[UndiFineD (k.dejong)]

opening software center consumes a bit of memory,
installed a piece of software and it consumes 100MB more memory,
after 12 installed applications this is a serious number.
after closing the software center the memory is freed again.

[UndiFineD (k.dejong)]

behaviour is not so much in synaptic
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22709 root 20 0 362m 58m 31m S 0 1.8 1:20.16 /usr/sbin/synaptic

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Thanks for this report, Undifined, and sorry for the ridiculously slow response.

I just tried this in USC 4.1.22, and could not reproduce the problem. Installing the first six applications from the "Education" category, waiting to install each until the previous one had finished, memory use (as shown in System Monitor) consistently stayed between 100 MiB and 120 MiB.

The code has changed a lot since you reported the bug, so it's quite possible the problem has been fixed anyway. If you still experience it, please reopen this report with more specific steps to reproduce the problem. Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for software-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]