[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#766762: upower: fatal memory leak on low battery

[Stephen Kitt]

Hi,

Le 28/11/2014 16:51, Michael Banck a écrit :
> I had a quick chat with a release team member and they seem to believe
> this bug warrants RC status:
> 
> <azeem> so upowerd tends to eat up 2+GB in some cases due to a
>   memleak, RC or not?
> <azeem> (2GB memory, that is)
> <LocutusOfBorg1> 2GB is not too much anymore :)
> <azeem> well, at 2GB my notebook keeps thrashing, and with luck I
>   get to the console and kill -9 it
> <azeem> not sure what the upper bound is
> <thijs> I'd say RC
> <thijs> can always downgrade later if impact is better understood

I have one system with 32GB of RAM where I've seen upower use 18GB 
(thanks to a low-battery warning on the wireless mouse attached to the 
computer...), so there's a fair chance there is no upper bound.

Regards,

Stephen