Comment 37 for bug 779717

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 779717] Re: indicator-multiload causes a memory leak in compiz when run under unity

download unity and unity-common from the ppa. cd to the dir where they
are downloaded and try. sudo dpkg -i unity*

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Felipe Castillo
<email address hidden> wrote:
> I've added the Unity ppa, and I can't install the pacakge unity  3.8.12-0ubuntu2~mh3.
> I downloaded manually the .deb file (from Michael ppa), try to install it and then I realize the problem, I got the message:
>
> Dependency is not satisfiable: unity-common (= 3.8.12-0ubuntu2~mh3)
>
> So, I went again to the ppa, downloaded manually unity-common
> 3.8.12-0ubuntu2~mh3, try to install it. But to my surprise I get the
> message:
>
> Breaks existing package 'unity' dependency unity-common (=
> 3.8.12-0ubuntu1)
>
> So, that's why when I try to Force the version in the package Unity, I
> get as a result the same package being uninstalled.
>
> So as I workaround, I had to uninstall the package Unity, then force the new version in unity-common, and then force the version in unity, because with a normal update I wouldn't get unity-common updated either.
> Why did I have this problem? Did anybody else had it? Am I going to have any future problems if I have to update those packages again?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779717
>
> Title:
>  indicator-multiload causes a memory leak in compiz when run under
>  unity
>
> Status in System Load Indicator:
>  Confirmed
> Status in Unity:
>  Triaged
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “unity” source package in Natty:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  While indicator-multiload itself remains static, while it is running memory use in compiz increases about 1MB/min (RSS
>  Attached is pidstat log showing at idle for about 4 min, the indicator started and ruuning for about the same, then stopped and back at idle for a  couple of min.
>
>  This is a bug in compiz/unity (bug #720446, bug #758248), and can't be
>  fixed in system load indicator.
>