I haven't encountered it again until today. It doesn't happen all the time, but it doesn't just go away with a reboot either. I've written a crontab that kills the process every 10 minutes, that's the best workaround for now. Haven't had time to try valgrind.
However, something strange is going on and it's not limited to indicator-session, as you can see in the attached htop screenshot. It's also unity-settings-daemon and the accounts-daemon. So I don't really know *what* to try now. The bug title says "memory leak", that still is the case, though the htop screenshot also shows high cpu usage is a problem. ** Attachment added: "htop screenshot of high cpu & memory" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/1523698/+attachment/4535980/+files/zever-ubuntu.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-session in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523698 Title: indicator-session is leaking memory on ubuntu 15.10 Status in indicator-session package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: The `indicator-session-service` is slowly leaking memory, after a while it has used up over 10 gigabytes of RAM and swap and the entire system freezes. I've reinstalled the entire OS, and even started using a new home folder, but it's still happening. indicator-session: Geïnstalleerd: 12.10.5+15.10.20150915-0ubuntu1 Kandidaat: 12.10.5+15.10.20150915-0ubuntu1 Versietabel: *** 12.10.5+15.10.20150915-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/1523698/+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
