affects me too, my panel service was over 645 MB RSS with one cpu pegged at 100% before I restarted my desktop (up time was about a week).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243166 Title: memory leaks leading to performance issues in global menu Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Since upgrading to saucy, I've seen a lot of memory consumption with unity-panel-service, leading to menus taking a second or two to draw when simply hovering over File, View, etc. mdeslaur@mdlinux:~$ uptime 07:31:12 up 4 days, 17:04, 10 users, load average: 0.42, 0.55, 0.45 mdeslaur@mdlinux:~$ ps aux | grep panel mdeslaur 3331 2.4 5.1 1055552 410144 ? Ssl Oct17 163:52 /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: unity-services 7.1.2+13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19+kmemleak-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' Date: Tue Oct 22 07:26:46 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-13 (342 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-19 (63 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1243166/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
