Bug#374914: gweather: using over 20MB of resident memory; possible memory leak?

[Calum Mackay]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.14.2-1
Severity: normal

I've had gweather running for less than 24 hours, and I see it's resident
memory usage is at 20MB:

diz $ ps -ef | grep gweather-applet-2
calum    12240     1  0 Jun21 ?        00:01:52 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/gweather-applet-2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_GWeatherApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=35
diz $ ps -Fp 12240
UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
calum    12240     1  0 22546 23092   0 Jun21 ?        00:01:52 /usr/lib/gnome-a

which seems insane. I'm only monitoring two weather stations.

Might we have a memory leak here? It's an awful waste of memory, if not...

best regards,
calum.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.1         Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                     2.14.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data         2.14.2-1      Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme           2.14.2-1      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel                2.14.1-1      launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa         0.10.7-2      GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  libapm1                    3.2.2-5       Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.11.4-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.14.0-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-15      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.0.4-2       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-2                0.61-6        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.61-6        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1             2.3.2-7       generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.14.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.5.1-2     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.10.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.14.2-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-1      GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0 0.10.7-2      GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0         0.10.6-2      Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.18-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-5                 2.12.2-1      Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii  libgucharmap4              1:1.6.0-1     Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libhal1                    0.5.7-2       Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1                 0.4.0-1       sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.0-1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.14.1-1      library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.12.3-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                  2.14.2-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.0-6     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.5.2-5     X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.0-4     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:3.0.1.2-4   X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.0-5     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxklavier10              2.2-3         X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                    2.6.24.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-4   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.0.2-4   X Rendering Extension client libra

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
pn  deskbar-applet             <none>        (no description available)
ii  gnome-media                2.12.0-4      GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet     2.12.0-5      Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monitor       2.12.2-2      Process viewer and system resource
ii  imagemagick                7:6.2.4.5-0.8 Image manipulation programs

-- debconf information:
  gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit: false