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** No longer affects: notify-osd

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378193

Title:
  Memory leak in notify-osd

Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “notify-osd” source package in Karmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: notify-osd

  Ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, I found that these programs,
  which I believe are closely related, leak a lot of memory over time:

  /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
  /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=32

  E.g., after a day, each of the above consumes many hundreds of MB in
  the resident set size (and even more in the virtual memory size).  I
  usually just send SIGTERM to both; after killing notify-osd, I am
  prompted to restart the program (don't quite remember what the dialog
  box says, but the button to hit is Reload).  The programs restart with
  small memory usage again.

  Not sure if it matters, but I use Pidgin, and I leave it running all
  the time. My understanding is that notify-osd is the program that
  draws those pop-up notifications whenever signs on/off, and AFAIK
  Pidgin is the only program that I ever see these pop-up notifications
  from.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
  Release:        9.04

  $ uname -a 
  Linux yang-xps410 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  $ apt-cache policy notify-osd
  notify-osd:
    Installed: 0.9.11-0ubuntu3
    Candidate: 0.9.11-0ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 0.9.11-0ubuntu3 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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