I have the same bug! It is November 2010. I still am affected by this bug and it is November 2010!
::~==>ps auxw | head -1; ps auxw | grep indicator-applet USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND wife 2281 0.0 1.4 359040 118180 ? Sl Oct21 9:10 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet-session --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=19 wife 2290 0.0 0.0 44564 2876 ? S Oct21 0:00 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=40 me 9664 0.0 0.0 46264 5664 ? S Oct21 0:09 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=22 me 9666 0.0 0.0 54276 6356 ? Sl Oct21 4:12 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet-session --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=28 me 10796 0.0 0.0 1864 640 pts/2 S+ 12:56 0:00 grep indicator-applet son 21707 0.0 0.0 46880 5540 ? S Oct31 0:04 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=30 son 21714 0.1 1.4 236560 119452 ? Sl Oct31 5:00 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet-session --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=21 -- indicator-applet uses extremely large amounts of memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575335 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