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[Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu Lucid)
     Assignee: Michael Terry (mterry) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  memory leak in gnome-power-manager

Status in Application Indicators:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity Foundations:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “indicator-application” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-power-manager” source package in Lucid:
  Fix Committed
Status in “indicator-application” source package in Lucid:
  Won't Fix
Status in “gnome-power-manager” source package in Maverick:
  Fix Released
Status in “indicator-application” source package in Maverick:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  ==== 10.10 SRU ====
  I'm requesting a backported fix for 10.10's gnome-power-manager based on the menu leak I found in 11.04.  It's a simple one-line change, only affecting gnome-power-manager (rather than fixing root cause in libappindicator, because that potentially may adversely affect consumers that worked around it, though we know of none).

  gnome-power-manager is seemingly the worst offender, so it gets
  special treatment.  Test case right below.  Watch memory use for a
  bit.  It may go up for a few minutes, but then stabilizes.

  Debdiff to follow, it's already been uploaded to maverick-proposed.
  ===================

  TEST CASE: (at the beginning because it's a long post):
  1. Monitor the output of the command for a few hours
    $ watch -n1 'grep heap -A11 /proc/$( pidof gnome-power-manager )/smaps'

  VERIFICATION SUCCEEDED:
  - Memory usage is stable over time

  DESCRIPTION:
  Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

  gnome-power-manager (2.30.0-0ubuntu1) seems to have a memory leak my
  machine running Lucid.  I witnessed it using up to 120MB in the RES
  column according to "top".  My machine is 64 bit and is connected to a
  APC uninterruptible power supply.  I haven't yet tried unplugging it
  to see if the UPS is somehow related to this problem.  Another person
  reported a similar problem in bug #196688 comment 25.  Opening a new
  bug seemed like a good idea since that bug was fixed 2 years ago.

  Here is some information for what gnome-power-manager looks like after running for a long period of time (from  /proc/`pidof gnome-power-manager`/smaps):
  0147b000-08810000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
  Size:             118356 kB
  Rss:              118188 kB
  Pss:              118188 kB
  Shared_Clean:          0 kB
  Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
  Private_Clean:         0 kB
  Private_Dirty:    118188 kB
  Referenced:       118020 kB
  Swap:                  0 kB
  KernelPageSize:        4 kB
  MMUPageSize:           4 kB

  I rebooted my machine and let it sit at the login screen.  I logged via ssh and found that gnome-power-manager was using the following:
  01f6e000-02075000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
  Size:               1052 kB
  Rss:                 944 kB
  Pss:                 944 kB
  Shared_Clean:          0 kB
  Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
  Private_Clean:         0 kB
  Private_Dirty:       944 kB
  Referenced:          944 kB
  Swap:                  0 kB
  KernelPageSize:        4 kB
  MMUPageSize:           4 kB

  I logged out of my ssh session and didn't touch the machine until 5 and 1/2 hours later---and I logged in again remotely with ssh to check on gnome-power-manager and found:
  01f6e000-02e5d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
  Size:              15292 kB
  Rss:               15280 kB
  Pss:               15280 kB
  Shared_Clean:          0 kB
  Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
  Private_Clean:         0 kB
  Private_Dirty:     15280 kB
  Referenced:        15280 kB
  Swap:                  0 kB
  KernelPageSize:        4 kB
  MMUPageSize:           4 kB

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gnome-power-manager 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Apr 23 22:23:32 2010
  GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
  GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
  GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
  MachineType: DELL Inc. XPS 730X
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=e3f32a1f-7be3-45c9-9096-fa696ad50df3 ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
  dmi.bios.date: 07/16/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: DELL INC.
  dmi.bios.version: 1.0.5
  dmi.board.name: 0P270J
  dmi.board.vendor: DELL Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A00
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: DELL Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDELLINC.:bvr1.0.5:bd07/16/2009:svnDELLInc.:pnXPS730X:pvr00:rvnDELLInc.:rn0P270J:rvrA00:cvnDELLInc.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: XPS 730X
  dmi.product.version: 00
  dmi.sys.vendor: DELL Inc.

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