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[Mateusz Stachowski <1199877@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The worst impact on unity-panel-service have programs that are heavy in
menus department. People already mentioned Gimp, Inkscape, LibreOffice
and Sublime Text 3 and I would also add Geany to that list. You launch
any of this programs and the unity-panel-service increases it's memory
usage and hovering on the menus makes things even worse.

I discovered something that most likely decreased RAM usage of unity-
panel-service in my case. Since I upgraded to 13.10 some of my
indicators (Weather-Indicator and Syspeek) displayed only part of their
menu. I've finally found a way to bring back the missing menu items and
apparently it had a big impact on u-p-s because now in worst moments
it's about 80 MiB in Gnome System Monitor and before it would be as high
as 200 MiB.

https://answers.launchpad.net/weather-indicator/+question/237754

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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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