Bug#445340: gnome-panel: Hogs memory

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Le vendredi 05 octobre 2007 à 07:59 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:14:09AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Package: gnome-panel
> > Version: 2.20.0.1-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > After a few hours running, here is what top displays:
> > 7816 mh        15   0  266m 167m 6788 S  0.7 22.1   4:25.10 gnome-panel
> > 
> > There is obviously something leaking.
> 
> I think i found the culprit. My battery is half dead, and the
> gnome-power-manager notification icon is set up to only show up when on
> battery. As it happens, the acpi information switches quite randomly
> between on battery an on AC, meaning the icon appears/disappears quite a
> lot, and following gnome-panel memory usage after a while seems to
> indicate the memory hogging doesn't happen when the icon is made still
> (always display it), though the icon itself changes (switches between the
> charging icon and the on AC icon).
> 
> So, on first hand, there seems to be a leak when a notification icon
> disappears.

The upstream developers asked if you could obtain a valgrind output of
gnome-panel when this happens.

Thanks,
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