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 DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199877 Title: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: New Status in Unity: In Progress Status in Unity 7.1 series: In Progress Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Just going about my business on Ubuntu Raring amd64 on an x230 and I heard the fan kick into action. top showed me that unity-panel- service was consuming all the free cycles on one of my CPUs. I killed it before my machine overheated, so I didn't attach a debugger to see why it was totally pegging out a CPU. I'm not sure if this adds any context, but I was using a LibreOffice spreadsheet and I could not insert a table because the menu had lost it's mind, and then I observed the overly loaded CPU a very short while after that. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-consumption/+bug/1199877/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
