Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
I noticed this "little" problem just a while ago. I always knew that
gnome-panel had some kind of generic memory leak (I cannot pinpoint the
cause) but it was small and always seemed to correct itself after a
while. This time was different. I don't know what did it; maybe it was
the numerous switches of panel pattern images trying to find a nice one,
maybe it was the moving of the transparent panel causing tons of re-
sampling, or maybe it was just a freak accident, but it was major! I
luckily have 2Gb of RAM and another 1 Gb of swap, but on one of my
routine checks of conky, I noticed my RAM usage was unusually high. I
looked under the graph at the top consumers and noticed gnome-panel was
at a whopping ~44%! For those of you bad at math, that works out to
about 850Mb, which when I "top"'ed it, it actually was. The first
course of action was just to "killall gnome-panel" and let it reload to
it's regular 14-20Mb consumption rate. I then tried to recreate the
problem, which was surprisingly difficult. I tried making it
transparent and moving it all over. Nearly no effect (<1Mb increase,
which soon vanished anyways). I tried swapping in and out tons pf
backgrounds - same result. I tried opening deskbar and typing and
opening random things. there was a slight increase, which also went
away after some time. At a loss, I turned here hoping to find an
answer, or at least warn the community, which I have now done. Any
ideas or plans of action?
PS: I am using version "1:2.20.1-0ubuntu1" whatever that means... on Ubuntu
7.10 Gutsy 64bit with tons of stuff installed... TONS of stuff...
I am not sure what version of Gnome itself I am using, but it's whatever is
included with 7.10 and updated as of April 11th, 2008, 5:38 PM Mountain
Standard Time (Edmonton).
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: applets background memory panel
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generic memory leak
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216030
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