I tried live usb booting into Precise amd64 a few days before final release, left it running overnight while bittorrenting. Didn't notice much of an increase in memory usage in nm-applet, maybe 10% at most, which is far far better than what I'm seeing in natty. Also, I never encountered the little menu stub that's common in Natty after a long enough time. So things have obviously improved. The version in Precise (0.9.4.1 ish) is a fair bit newer than the one in Natty (0.8.4 ish). Again, any chance some patch(es) might get backported? This really is a security issue, in a networking component no loess, and Natty is supposed to remain supported until October 2012.
** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780602 Title: nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a while To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/780602/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs