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[Valentin Crone <987060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have personnaly disabled the execution of hud-service (chmod 000)
because my computer use always 6GB of ram including 3GB by hud-service.

And the last time hud service was running it take 18.7GB of RAM for 16GB available.
Please fix this bug, on computer with only 4GB of ram it's a huge problem...
And sometimes it takes 100% of one I5 core, it provide lag and freezes...

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Title:
  massive memory leak in unity-panel-service and hud-service when
  invoking the hud on Firefox profiles with large amounts of bookmarks
  LTS 12.04 14.04

Status in Unity HUD:
  Confirmed
Status in Application Menu Indicator:
  Confirmed
Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in hud package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  unity-panel-service and hud-service quickly racks up memory and CPU
  usage until I kill it when invoking the HUD on Firefox. It's taking
  anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour, but it sometimes makes
  the system completely unusable.

  1. run Firefox 12.0 in the foreground
  2. hit Alt to bring up HUD
  3. type any text
  4. select one proposal from HUD
  5. wait for unity-panel-service and hud-service to fill up the remaining RAM and swap space.

  This is due to a high number of bookmarks in a user profile
  (hundreds).

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