Well this already looks suspicious:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/notify-
osd/trunk/view/505/src/stack.c#L813
#define FORCED_SHUTDOWN_THRESHOLD 500
....
// FIXME: this is a temporary work-around, I do not like at all, until
// the heavy memory leakage of notify-osd is fully fixed...
// after a threshold-value is reached, "arm" a forceful shutdown of
// notify-osd (still allowing notifications in the queue, and coming in,
// to be displayed), in order to get the leaked memory freed again, any
// new notifications, coming in after the shutdown, will instruct the
// session to restart notify-osd
if (bubble_get_id (bubble) == FORCED_SHUTDOWN_THRESHOLD)
g_timeout_add (defaults_get_on_screen_timeout (self->defaults),
_arm_forced_quit,
(gpointer) self);
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725435
Title:
notify-osd a memory hog (memory leak?)
Status in notify-osd package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: notify-osd
Noticed this today on my lucid box in top:
2647 myaccount 20 0 1196m 595m 3528 S 0 29.7 1:09.68 notify-osd
I don't think a simple notifcation daemon should suck up more than a
Gig of memory of which half is real memory. It's the first time I
noticed this. I don't have too much information at this point.
$ dpkg -l notify-osd*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-=============================================-=============================================-==========================================================================================================
ii notify-osd 0.9.29-0ubuntu2
daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications
ii notify-osd-icons 0.6
Notify-OSD icons
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