This is still an hard issue with up to date trusty, i'm only able to write this with running:
while true; do sleep 5 && kill -s 1 $(pgrep unity-panel-ser); done That's keep the system alive under "heavy load" from repeated Thunderbird messages and probably "indicator-notifications". dpkg -l | egrep ^ii | egrep -o indicator-\\S* indicator-appmenu indicator-bluetooth indicator-cpufreq indicator-datetime indicator-keyboard indicator-messages indicator-notifications indicator-power indicator-printers indicator-session indicator-sound Nice to watch the "balloning" ;) top -p $(pgrep unity-panel-ser) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199877 Title: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1199877/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
