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[Rankovic <1199877@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After monitoring this for a few days on 13.10, I can say that GIMP triggers a memory leak after I run it the first time and then exit. After that, unity-panel-service does not release any RAM from any application and eventually menus on all applications and on indicators become slow and unresponsive. 
But if I don’t launch GIMP, I see no abnormal memory increase in unity-panel-service even after using a variety of applications throughout the day.

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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 “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gtk+3.0” source package in Saucy:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” source package in Saucy:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact: high CPU/memory usage from unity-panel-service

  Test case:

  Open a large image in the GIMP and activate a lot of items from the
  global menu. Using shortcuts is enough and faster to reproduce this
  bug (I've always used Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Shift+A). Memory usage of unity-
  panel-service increases steadily and it uses a lot of CPU shortly
  after activating the menu items in a short time.

  Regression potential: check that the menus are stable/working as they
  should

  ---------
  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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