In my experience in bionic, the memory isn't even freed when starting a new document with Ctrl+N. The memory usage simply keeps ballooning with every additional page scanned.
** Changed in: simple-scan (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: simple-scan (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to simple-scan in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1658620 Title: Memory leak when scanning and deleting pages Status in simple-scan package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: To reproduce: 1. Scan a few pages 2. Note the memory useage 3. Delete those pages (right click delete) 4. Note the memory useage You can repeat those steps and note that the more and more memory is being used, even after you delete those pages. The memory doesn't get freed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: simple-scan 3.20.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Mon Jan 23 12:10:01 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-19 (734 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140723) MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. N76VB ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-59-generic root=/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: simple-scan UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-07-29 (177 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/24/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: N76VB.205 dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567 dmi.board.name: N76VB dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrN76VB.205:bd05/24/2013:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnN76VB:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnN76VB:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0: dmi.product.name: N76VB dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+bug/1658620/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp