Comment 101 for bug 569273

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Ben Gamari (bgamari) wrote : Re: [Bug 569273] Re: memory leak in gnome-power-manager

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Aaron Clark <email address hidden> wrote:
> I am seeing the same thing with Gnome-Power-Manager, Opera 11.01 and touchthesky 1.14 (a weather monitoring widget installed with Opera).  All three slowly increase mem usage until all 6 gig on this machine are consumed.  Ubuntu 10.04 64.
> Usually can't stay up for more than 3 to 5 days without restarting those apps to get the memory back.

Could you run this software in valgrind? This could provide some useful hints.