Just wanted to give a small update on this. I'm not using Ubuntu right now but I will be at the Atlanta LinuxCon tomorrow and I intend to set this up in a VM tonight so if anyone from the Ubuntu/Maximus dev team is going to be there, either email me directly (chuckdmoney at gmail dot com) or reply here and I'm subscribed so it'll email me.
That said, I found a workaround for this, however I still consider it a bug. Basically, I had gone into GNOME session settings and told it to automatically remember running programs on logout. With this enabled, when you relogin, Maximus is relaunched every time for every window you had open on the previous logout - even if that specific window is itself no longer running. Thus, after several logout/login or reboots, you have potentially hundreds of dead Maximus theads with no associated window sitting there eating 0.3% CPU/RAM, and after a while this will completely grind a system to a halt. Hence, the temporary workaround is to uncheck that box and then add everything you want to start each session to the other tab in GNOME Session settings manually. I believe the more permanent solution might be to either patch Maximus or patch the Gnome Session Settings so that Maximus is excluded from being saved in a session, though I'm sure there's some facility I don't know about to exclude things anyway. I would try to patch this myself but unfortunaely I know very little C, almost no C++, and not a single line of Python, so unless GNOME is coded in PHP and nobody told the developers I won't be much help on that end. Anyhow, if anyone is at LinuxCon tomorrow in Atlanta, email me and we'll find a way to meet each other and I will be happy to replicate the bug in person. If not, I'll see what I can provide as far as a screenshot or log of the problem early next week. -- Maximus creates way too many processes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401916 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
