Me too. But a bit more weird.
Pidgin was in the background for an hour. (Normal memory consumption) Then I started WinXP in vBox and ERROR: "Host low memory". I thought Java/Netbeans was eating up everything so i tried to close it: Click on Close button... wait... 4 minutes.... I got unpatient and issued "killall java"... No reaction... "sudo killall -9 java"... worked. But I was still lagging. Re-opening the terminal I just closed took the system 3 minutes! Then I managed to start the System monitor to see whats going on and... "huh?! Pidgin? 607 MB? Holy cow!". (then used kill -9 on pidgin). And everything was fine. Its running and its fine... Pidgin had only one MSN account to *@live.de server. (Linux Mint 10. Running programs: vBox (paused) and Netbeans 6.9.1, Dropbox, Skype. Having 1GB RAM). Well, 2.7 GB swap usage. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226692 Title: pidgin hogs all system memory -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
