unity-panel-service memory leak when starting various applications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Application Menu Indicator |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Ted Gould | ||
DBus Menu |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Michael Terry | ||
Unity |
Invalid
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High
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Ted Gould | ||
Unity Distro Priority |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Opening various programs causes unity-panel-service to use more and more resident memory (that won't be freed after program termination).
Attaching a valgrind log of unity-panel-service containing ten starts of Kile (which caused unity-panel-service to go from 23 MB to 119 MB resident memory usage):
==8130== LEAK SUMMARY:
==8130== definitely lost: 45,015 bytes in 508 blocks
==8130== indirectly lost: 203,173 bytes in 5,553 blocks
==8130== possibly lost: 23,453 bytes in 450 blocks
==8130== still reachable: 28,961,416 bytes in 525,544 blocks
TEST CASE:
1. Open a gnome-terminal window.
2. Run 'while true; do ps aux | grep unity-panel-service | grep -v grep; sleep 1; done' and monitor the sixth column (resident memory usage in KB).
3a. Open and close Gimp, or if zou don't have that installed:
3b. Open and close Nautilus.
RESULTS:
For 3a: memory increases by ~12 MB.
For 3b: memory increases by ~2 MB.
I'm currently running Unity from trunk (r1455) but this also happens with Unity from Oneiric and a daily live CD (amd64 - 20110827). This also affectes unity-2d
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description: | updated |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: oneiric unity unity-2d |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 4.14.0 → 4.16.0 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 4.16.0 → 4.18.0 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 4.18.0 → 4.20.0 |
affects: | unity (Ubuntu) → libappindicator (Ubuntu) |
affects: | libappindicator (Ubuntu) → indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu) |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 4.20.0 → 4.22.0 |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 4.22.0 → 4.24.0 |
Changed in dbusmenu: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
assignee: | nobody → Michael Terry (mterry) |
milestone: | none → 0.5.1 |
Changed in dbusmenu: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 4.24.0 → 4.26.0 |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in unity-distro-priority: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
tags: | added: udp |
Changed in unity-distro-priority: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in indicator-appmenu: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
This seems to affect various applications ranging from 1-2MB (nautilus, gedit, banshee) to 7-12MB for inkscape, gimp. It doesn't matter if I start those applications throught the launcher or via command line.
Although I'm seeing this on two different systems, I'll try a live CD to make sure it's not some issue with my installations.