indicator-applet-complete memory usage grows each time any applet icon is updated. Animated icons speed this process up a lot.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-applet in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575335 Title: indicator-applet uses extremely large amounts of memory Status in “indicator-applet” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: indicator-applet Probably a duplicate of #369539, but creating a new bug at Sebastien Bacher's direction. Indicator-applet appears to have a memory leak. I upgraded to Lucid the day it was released, before that running a clean if somewhat old install of Karmic. In Karmic I did not experience the issue. Under normal usage, the indicator-applet process uses more and more memory until eventually things start dying from the OOM killer. To combat this, I have been watching the system monitor applet's memory usage graph until it reaches a high level, checking with top to find indicator-applet at the top of the memory usage stack (currently using 882m virt, 617m res 11m shr) and then kill the pid from the command line. I have to do this twice a day. Expected behavior: indicator-applet sits next to my clock and doesn't cause problems. Actual behavior: indicator-applet uses more and more memory over time until the system becomes unstable. lsb_release -a: No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid apt-cache policy indicator-applet: Installed: 0.3.6-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 0.3.6-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 0.3.6-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status uname -a: Linux motoko 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:09:38 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Further information available upon request. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: indicator-applet 0.3.6-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue May 4 09:28:56 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: indicator-applet To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-applet/+bug/575335/+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
