Bug#689592: gnome-power-statistics: memory leak & insanity w/broken upowerd

[Jamie Heilman]

Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 3.4.0-2

This is related to, but ultimately a separate problem from the one
detailed in bug 689298.  When gnome-power-statistics is run on a Linux
system without CONFIG_TIMER_STATS=y set in the kernel, upowerd won't
work correctly, and indeed behaves horribly, which impacts
gnome-power-statistics in a negative manner.  In that circumstance,
gnome-power-statistics will leak memory rapidly and without bounds
while it consumes substantial CPU resources.  The memory leak is
arguably the bigger problem, but suffice it to say that even if
upowerd is broken and not responding correctly there's no good reason
for gnome-power-statistics to consume memory endlessly.

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Jamie Heilman                     http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/