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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Matthias,

On 01.05.2015 18:21, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Friday, May 01, 2015 a las 04:36:32PM +0100, Michael Zanetti
> escribió:
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>> I think we have identified this issue and have a proposed fix
>> for this. It seems to be related to this bug report [1] and the
>> proposed solution is in this branch [2]. I will do some more
>> testing to be sure the fix catches this issue but so far it looks
>> good.
>> 
>> Thanks everyone for reporting this.
>> 
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1326513 
>> [2] 
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~mzanetti/unity8/stop-orphaned-apps/+merge
/258010
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>> 
> I glanced through the bug [2] and it seems that the proposed fix
> is, that in the case of a crash of unity8 the launched apps are
> somehow terminated, I am correct?
> 
> What does this mean for the end user? Will he/she at the end of
> the story wearing a halted phone in his/her pocket and is just not
> reachable for hours until he/she find this out?

No. Right now, in case unity should crash it will be restarted
automatically. Previously running apps however could still stick
around (as unity isn't their parent process) and could end up spinning
with 100% CPU usage. The user would then see unity as it would be
freshly booted without noticing those headless apps using up CPU/battery
.

After the proposed fix, in case of unity crashing/restarting, any
previously running app will be taken down too. So visually you
shouldn't see any difference than before, but those headless running
app processes won't be around any more hence not draining the battery
any more.

We will keep on searching for the cause why unity crashes as that
really shouldn't happen in the first place.

Cheers,
Michael
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