Bug#445340: gnome-panel: Hogs memory

[Mike Hommey]

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.

Mike