Thanks for this report guys. I am close to completing a significant overhaul to HUD, which should put a lid on these recurring memory leak issues.
The reason you are seeing increased memory usage under normal conditions is because HUD had a voice recognition capability integrated into it for 13.10. This is never used on the desktop (it's only used on the phone), but because of the way I integrated it, it's running even though you can't actually use it with the "legacy" Unity7 user interface. Obviously this doesn't totally account for HUD using several hundred megabytes of memory. This is simply down to old fashioned memory leaks. In addition to a less leak-prone design, the revisions to HUD include splitting the voice engine out into its own service, which will only be started on the phone. Thus, your memory usage should go back down to similar levels as in 12.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Unity API bugs, which is subscribed to hud in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1253593 Title: hud memory usage grows over time Status in “hud” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After five days of uptime hud-service used 749 MB of RAM. Restarting hud-service drops it memory usage to about 100-150 MB, on the next day it's using already 227 MB of RAM. I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 for developing Qt-based application. Most of the time following applications started and used: Qt Creator, Qt Linguist, Qt Designer; gnome-terminal; gitk, git gui, cmake-gui; Firefox; Pidgin. In the tray there are: System Load Indicator, Nagstamon (v0.9.11 from official site), shutter, remmina. Also I use Yandex.Music and Grooveshark web-apps. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: hud 13.10.1+13.10.20131031-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-32.47-generic 3.8.13.10 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Nov 21 14:29:59 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-16 (35 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: hud UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-07 (13 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hud/+bug/1253593/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
