I'm seeing a similar issue in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty), however I don't know how to confirm whether this is the same bug or a different one. After about 2 weeks since startup nm-applet has grown to VSZ = 640 MB, RSS = 170 MB. This is a laptop and I'm using suspend a lot.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND wanted 1462 0.0 8.3 642292 170408 ? SLl Mar15 11:35 nm-applet --sm-disable Maybe the patch could be backported to Natty? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930491 Title: Large memory leak in nm-applet Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “network-manager-applet” source package in Precise: Fix Released Bug description: In an up-to-date precise install, memory usage by nm-applet climbs rapidly to hundreds of Mb within an hour after it's started. Valgrind log attached. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.2.0+git.20120126t000800.5151959-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-15.24-generic 3.2.5 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Feb 10 19:23:00 2012 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.1) IpRoute: default via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.2.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.15 metric 2 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH ribeira f828a6c2-179f-41ab-acdd-bf27da31c6d5 802-11-wireless 1328916417 Fri 10 Feb 2012 06:26:57 PM EST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.3.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/930491/+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
