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Message #42574
[Bug 378193] Re: Memory leak in notify-osd
Newer bug like this, still affecting at least Ubuntu 16.04: #725435
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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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