Comment 17 for bug 757727

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Seif Lotfy (seif) wrote : Re: [Bug 757727] Re: Zeitgeist-daemon memory usage skyrockets after dash search

Daniela,
Rest assured this is one of the things we are working on right now... In a
few days we are releasing a rewrite of Zeitgeist that should fix this issue
:)
Cheers
Seif

2011/10/16 daniela <email address hidden>

> I also had this zeitgeist-daemon memory leak while I was using Natty.
> When I updated to Oneiric Ocelot, the bug was still there.
>
> So I've uninstalled zeitgeist fts extension and it seems to be fixed,
> but I noticed I'm not able to search files with Dash now.
>
> I'm using: Linux daniela-desktop 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct
> 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
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> Title:
> Zeitgeist-daemon memory usage skyrockets after dash search
>
> Status in Zeitgeist Extensions:
> New
> Status in “zeitgeist-extensions” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: zeitgeist
>
> The memory usage of the process "zeitgeist-daemon" goes too high after
> doing a couple of searches in the Dash.
>
> It is around 16mb on startup, but after using the Dash a couple of
> time to open some programs, or search for some files, it goes over
> 200mb, some times even over 300mb. The memory is not freed until
> restart or the process is killed.
>
> I attach a screenshot of the system monitor, showing Zeitgeist-daemon
> using over 380mb.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: zeitgeist 0.7.1-1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Apr 11 13:28:11 2011
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=es_AR:en
> LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: zeitgeist
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-06 (4 days ago)
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