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[Dave Barker <kzar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm also finding that the hud-service process has started leaking memory
+ CPU recently. It was never a problem for me before.

As I speak it's using 100% of one CPU core and 5.5gig of RAM! I'm
finding it like that each morning and having to reboot before I start
work for the day.

- Ubuntu 15.04
- Linux stoa 3.19.0-30-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 22:08:41 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- Thinkpad T450 i7 with 16gigs of ram

I don't really use Firefox, although I occasionally start it to test
things. I have few/no bookmarks in Firefox.

If someone can explain how I can obtain the debug symbols for hud-
service I'll have a go at running it under Valgrind.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987060

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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