memory leak in unitym

[TomaszChmielewski]

After a few days of uptime, my laptop (with 4 GB RAM, running Ubuntu 15.10, 64 bit) is getting unresponsive, starts swapping, and eventually OOM-killer starts killing processes.

The workaround I use to "fix it" is as follows (it helps for the next 2 days or so):

$ unity --replace &

Here is "free" output before running "unity --replace &":

$ free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3472600 3383216 89384 88428 38324 545220
-/+ buffers/cache: 2799672 672928
Swap: 3610620 3264476 346144

"free" output after "unity --replace &" was run:

$ free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3472600 2298380 1174220 67564 90276 687368
-/+ buffers/cache: 1520736 1951864
Swap: 3610620 1181756 2428864

[Daniele Castrovilli (danielestrife)]

“Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can’t work out how to recreate this bug from your description. Please describe the process you go through to trigger this bug and then change the bug status to NEW. See this page for more information. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BigDesktopBugScrub”

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Can you still reproduce this?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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