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Hey, is there any interest in getting this fixed?

Be reminded that due to this memory leak, notify-osd can easily take up
a 1 GB of memory after the computer runs for a while. Just yesterday I
had to manually kill it again in this situation.

Most laptops out there these days likely run on 4 GB RAM or less.

Spending 25% of an average user's machines on notify-osd's memory leak
seems like something that should be addressed quickly, especially if the
fix is trivial.

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Title:
  notify-osd a memory hog (memory leak?)

Status in notify-osd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: notify-osd

  Noticed this today on my lucid box in top:
  2647 myaccount  20   0 1196m 595m 3528 S    0 29.7   1:09.68 notify-osd

  I don't think a simple notifcation daemon should suck up more than a
  Gig of memory of which half is real memory.  It's the first time I
  noticed this.  I don't have too much information at this point.

  $ dpkg -l notify-osd*
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                                          Version                                       Description
  +++-=============================================-=============================================-==========================================================================================================
  ii  notify-osd                                    0.9.29-0ubuntu2                               daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications
  ii  notify-osd-icons                              0.6                                           Notify-OSD icons

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