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[Bug 513682] Re: gnome-system-monitor grows in size and becomes unresponsive when left to its own devices

 

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 751523 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751523

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
duplicate of bug 751523, so it is being marked as such. Please look at
the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you
can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.
Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in
the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may
find.

PS: Although your report is older I'm marking this report as duplicate
because the newer one contains more detailed information.

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Title:
  gnome-system-monitor grows in size and becomes unresponsive when left
  to its own devices

Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

  This is a cut and paste from top after System Monitor had been left
  running for a while: it appears system monitor is consuming almost 2.5
  Gig of memory (!) and the entire computer was running extremely slowly
  (most processes continuously swapping in and out of memory...:

  top - 09:17:31 up 18 days, 20:16,  3 users,  load average: 9.04, 6.94, 4.17
  Tasks: 188 total,   1 running, 184 sleeping,   0 stopped,   3 zombie
  Cpu(s): 59.1%us,  3.0%sy,  3.8%ni,  9.1%id, 23.9%wa,  0.2%hi,  1.0%si,  0.0%st
  Mem:   2060568k total,  1993164k used,    67404k free,     2800k buffers
  Swap:  5984104k total,  3180756k used,  2803348k free,    61336k cached

    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                
  10633 andersja  20   0 1293m 1.1g 3892 D   84 57.6   5518:18 gnome-system-mo

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: afab8a4a6bea108b46a135d1f7175049
  CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
  Date: Thu Jan 28 09:17:56 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
  SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

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