This just started happening to me within the last week or two in Feisty. You can literally sit and watch gnome-panel and it will grow by about 100KBytes of resident memory every 10 seconds. I tried a few things to isolate the cause but ended up just running valgrind to see what it saw. I've attached the output from:
valgrind -v --leak-check=full gnome-panel This was left running overnight for about 8 hours. A couple highlights from the leak checker: ==6757== 197,917,668 bytes in 318,708 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 210 of 210 ==6757== at 0x4021620: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149) ==6757== by 0x48E9A61: XGetWindowProperty (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0) ==6757== LEAK SUMMARY: ==6757== definitely lost: 201,949,576 bytes in 462,132 blocks. Current workaround: don't run gnome-panel Basic machine stats: Ubuntu 7.04 P4-2.85, HT enabled, SMP kernel 2GB RAM proprietary nvidia driver, 100.14.19 ** Attachment added: "valgrind -v --leak-check=full gnome-panel" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10049220/gnome-panel-valgrind.txt -- Possible memory leak? gome-panel is a memory hog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108812 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
