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[Mateusz Stachowski <1199877@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I upgraded to 13.10 in time of Final Beta release and I observed a much
higher use of RAM compared to 13.04. This is very bad to the point that
my SWAP which is 4 GB (6 GB of DDR2 RAM) becomes filled sometimes and is
always used in more than 2 GB after couple hours.

I've noticed that unity-panel-service uses large portions of RAM in one
case it was 1 GB but also I'm observing today unity-sope-home using 390
MB. Also running the command mentioned earlier:

watch -n 0,5 ps -o rss= `pgrep unity-panel`

I see that the value goes up and up and it doesn't stop. Also when
looking at terminal opened with this and using the menus of programs and
indicators the numbers start to rise up like crazy and they don't go
down.

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Title:
  unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage

Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project:
  New
Status in Unity:
  In Progress
Status in Unity 7.1 series:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Just going about my business on Ubuntu Raring amd64 on an x230 and I
  heard the fan kick into action.  top showed me that unity-panel-
  service was consuming all the free cycles on one of my CPUs.  I killed
  it before my machine overheated, so I didn't attach a debugger to see
  why it was totally pegging out a  CPU.

  I'm not sure if this adds any context, but I was using a LibreOffice
  spreadsheet and I could not insert a table because the menu had lost
  it's mind, and then I observed the overly loaded CPU a very short
  while after that.

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