I've switched from natty (Ubuntu 11.04) to a fresh install of quantal
(Xubuntu 12.10), so I'm now running network-manager 0.9.6.0-0ubuntu7 and
network-manager-gnome 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6 (not sure why they're different
versions). It looks like the massive memory leaks in nm-applet are gone.
nm-applet tends to hover around 6MB of memory usage. However, after
running for a couple of days, the applet stops responding. I think,
though I'm not sure, that network connectivity eventually breaks some
time later.

As before, when nm-applet becomes unresponsive, I can still click the
nm-applet icon in the indicator plugin in the panel to bring up the
menu, but the VPN submenu only shows a stub, clicking on "Information"
or "Edit" does nothing, and I suspect clicking on any of the other
available networks doesn't do anything either. Killing and then
restarting nm-applet fixes it for another couple of days. As many
others, I'm always on WiFi, I suspend and resume often, and there tend
to be a lot of wireless networks within range. Which, if any, of these
factors makes a difference in causing nm-applet to become unresponsive
remains unknown.

Has anyone tried the latest 0.9.6.4 release from
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager ? It has some hopeful points
about stability in the release notes:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/0.9/NetworkManager-0.9.6.4.news

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