The worst impact on unity-panel-service have programs that are heavy in menus department. People already mentioned Gimp, Inkscape, LibreOffice and Sublime Text 3 and I would also add Geany to that list. You launch any of this programs and the unity-panel-service increases it's memory usage and hovering on the menus makes things even worse.
I discovered something that most likely decreased RAM usage of unity- panel-service in my case. Since I upgraded to 13.10 some of my indicators (Weather-Indicator and Syspeek) displayed only part of their menu. I've finally found a way to bring back the missing menu items and apparently it had a big impact on u-p-s because now in worst moments it's about 80 MiB in Gnome System Monitor and before it would be as high as 200 MiB. https://answers.launchpad.net/weather-indicator/+question/237754 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199877 Title: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-consumption/+bug/1199877/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
