Bug#368910: gnome-applets: drivemount_applet2 : eats my system's memory

[Olivier Berger]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.12.3-1
Severity: normal

Using the applet in my desktop, after several days in the same X connection, I noticed a significant slowdown.

Examining the memory usage, I noticed that the applet had eaten half of the machines memory, hence lots of swapping occurring.

I think there is probably a nasty memory leak.

Best regards,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

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        2.12.3-1       Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme          2.14.2-1       GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel               2.12.3-1       launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstrea 0.8.12-1       ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-esd [gstream 0.8.12-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin fo
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                     2.3.6-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2               0.61-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.61-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
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              2.10.2-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.14.1.1-1     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            2.14.1-2       GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 0.8.12-1       Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0         0.8.12-1       Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.16-1       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                   0.5.7-1        Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpanel-applet2-0        2.12.3-1       library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.12.1-2       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                 2.14.0         Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxklavier10             2.2-3          X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                   2.6.24.dfsg-1  GNOME XML library

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  gnome-media                2.12.0-3      The 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