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Message #00492
[Bug 569273] Re: memory leak in gnome-power-manager
Indeed 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1 uses much less RAM. I'm still up to 60160
kbytes RSS after 4 days (which still seems too much), but this is
nowhere close to the 250 MB and more it used to use.
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Title:
memory leak in gnome-power-manager
Status in Application Indicators:
Fix Released
Status in Unity Foundations:
Fix Released
Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Status in “indicator-application” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “gnome-power-manager” source package in Lucid:
Won't Fix
Status in “indicator-application” source package in Lucid:
Triaged
Status in “gnome-power-manager” source package in Maverick:
Fix Committed
Status in “indicator-application” source package in Maverick:
Confirmed
Bug description:
==== 10.10 SRU ====
I'm requesting a backported fix for 10.10's gnome-power-manager based on the menu leak I found in 11.04. It's a simple one-line change, only affecting gnome-power-manager (rather than fixing root cause in libappindicator, because that potentially may adversely affect consumers that worked around it, though we know of none).
gnome-power-manager is seemingly the worst offender, so it gets
special treatment. Test case right below. Watch memory use for a
bit. It may go up for a few minutes, but then stabilizes.
Debdiff to follow, it's already been uploaded to maverick-proposed.
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TEST CASE: (at the beginning because it's a long post):
1. Monitor the output of the command for a few hours
$ watch -n1 'grep heap -A11 /proc/$( pidof gnome-power-manager )/smaps'
VERIFICATION SUCCEEDED:
- Memory usage is stable over time
DESCRIPTION:
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager (2.30.0-0ubuntu1) seems to have a memory leak my
machine running Lucid. I witnessed it using up to 120MB in the RES
column according to "top". My machine is 64 bit and is connected to a
APC uninterruptible power supply. I haven't yet tried unplugging it
to see if the UPS is somehow related to this problem. Another person
reported a similar problem in bug #196688 comment 25. Opening a new
bug seemed like a good idea since that bug was fixed 2 years ago.
Here is some information for what gnome-power-manager looks like after running for a long period of time (from /proc/`pidof gnome-power-manager`/smaps):
0147b000-08810000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
Size: 118356 kB
Rss: 118188 kB
Pss: 118188 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 0 kB
Private_Dirty: 118188 kB
Referenced: 118020 kB
Swap: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
I rebooted my machine and let it sit at the login screen. I logged via ssh and found that gnome-power-manager was using the following:
01f6e000-02075000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
Size: 1052 kB
Rss: 944 kB
Pss: 944 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 0 kB
Private_Dirty: 944 kB
Referenced: 944 kB
Swap: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
I logged out of my ssh session and didn't touch the machine until 5 and 1/2 hours later---and I logged in again remotely with ssh to check on gnome-power-manager and found:
01f6e000-02e5d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
Size: 15292 kB
Rss: 15280 kB
Pss: 15280 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 0 kB
Private_Dirty: 15280 kB
Referenced: 15280 kB
Swap: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 23 22:23:32 2010
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
MachineType: DELL Inc. XPS 730X
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=e3f32a1f-7be3-45c9-9096-fa696ad50df3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
dmi.bios.date: 07/16/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: DELL INC.
dmi.bios.version: 1.0.5
dmi.board.name: 0P270J
dmi.board.vendor: DELL Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: DELL Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDELLINC.:bvr1.0.5:bd07/16/2009:svnDELLInc.:pnXPS730X:pvr00:rvnDELLInc.:rn0P270J:rvrA00:cvnDELLInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS 730X
dmi.product.version: 00
dmi.sys.vendor: DELL Inc.