Talking to some security folks, apparently we should be locking (i.e. we shouldn't drop the feature). So we just need to do it more precisely.
Also, even with locking, we can hit disk if we hibernate. So we should be clearing the password memory as soon as we're done with it too. (I assume we already don't hold on to those strings...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1074279 Title: lightdm uses ~30 Mb of RAM Status in Light Display Manager: New Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” source package in Raring: Confirmed Bug description: After loging in into the XCFE environment, I open a terminal and perform a top. If I sort the processes by decreasing resident memory, I see that lightdm requires 32MB of memory, that is more than X ! Since lightdm just sleeps after login in, I think it is wasting memory. Could it possibly load/unload features dynamically as gdm already did (many small processes which were launched when a feature was required) ? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: lightdm 1.4.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Nov 2 10:19:19 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-20 (12 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1074279/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
