Bug#772910: mate-settings-daemon: Massive memory leak

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi,

On  Fr 12 Dez 2014 07:08:19 CET, jsdk wrote:

> Package: mate-settings-daemon
> Version: 1.8.2-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I have been using MATE on openSUSE 13.2 and ran in to an issue where mate-
> settings-daemon would eat ram until death of computer. I got 8gb ram  
> so noticed
> at about 6-7gb eaten. Well that led me to Google and these 2 links spell out
> problem:
>
> https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-settings-
> daemon/issues/44#issuecomment-61430431
>
> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=159793
>
> including links to Redhat (with Poettering and Clem from Mint chatting if I
> remember correctly) and Debain bugtracker - and Mint forum. Mint people think
> removing systemd is the fix :)
>
> Well I then went to use Ubuntu MATE for 1 week. Guess what, zero  
> issues. Ubuntu
> 14.04 LTS does not use a lot of systemd. Probaly why, I suspect Mint forum
> might be correct but not acceptable fix - and it will probably blow up other
> things. But because Ubuntu being Ubuntu I changed again. Now Debian  
> Jessie with
> MATE. Worked much better except I now see bug again. Think it might  
> be because
> I used the plugin for Caja allowing to fire files as root.
>
> My xsession-errors fill up, 500+MB with
>
> (caja:2450): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file
> '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied.  dconf will not work  
> properly.
>
> So same OLD story. I am mainly reporting this to say it is still there. Has
> nothing new to add.
>
> Is impossible to miss bug when is show itself, when swapping kicks in because
> ram is gone you notice, but possible not that many run in to it.  
> Depends on how
> each compute of course. Is nasty so I hope it is acknowledged and  
> being worked
> on.

Thanks for reporting this. I need to check on this. There were several  
upstream commit on various MATE components fixing memory leaks,  
recently. I will ask the upstream author of those patches what he  
thinks about pushing them into Debian jessie.

Mike



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