We are also seeing this again in Precise. It was gone in Oneiric, so it seems there has been a memory leak regression introduced.
** Also affects: oem-priority Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: oem-priority/precise Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780602 Title: nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a while Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: New Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: nm-applet leaks memory in a fresh install of Natty, increasing to over 200 Mb in 6-8 hours. In addition the nm-applet embedded in the task bar becomes unresponsive after several hours. Clicking on the applet will still show the popup menu, but none of the menu entries respond to mouse clicks. When this happens, the "VPN connections" and "Other networks" menus also show up completely empty (only a small menu stub is displayed). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8.4~git.20110318t152954.9c4c9a0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic-pae 2.6.38.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Date: Tue May 10 11:53:09 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413) IpRoute: 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.12 metric 1 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/780602/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp