It seems there is some kind of memory leak still. So I killed process unity-panel-service yesterday. Today morning I started to use my system again, I quite heavily use workspace switching all the time. Currently unity-panel-service is again at the top by memory usage though not so high as yesterday:
20089 lgb 20 0 386m 176m 5260 S 3.0 9.2 17:17.86 unity- panel-ser Now I've just killed it again. After it is reloaded, the situation reported by top: 3223 lgb 20 0 193m 14m 10m S 0.0 0.8 0:00.28 unity- panel-ser -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242735 Title: [saucy] unity-panel-service relaunch indicator I want to exit from, also possible memory leak Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I upgraded to saucy (from raring) yesterday (x86, 32 bit). After the first log-in, the weather indicator was on the panel, and I've decided to quit from it, since it's unusable for me (always shows 18C, but not so important and not the scope of this issue). It exited, but it seems it was relaunched all the time I wanted to exit via the menu of the indicator applet. At the end I was in the mood to kill the process from a terminal window, but still, it was relaunched. So I removed the package since it was annoying anyway and I didn't want to use it. Finally it was not relaunched again (of course). According to .xsession-errors file: Warning: Only changing the first 12 of 10 buttons. Script for ibus started at run_im. Script for auto started at run_im. Script for default started at run_im. init: indicator-weather main process ended, respawning init: indicator-weather main process ended, respawning init: indicator-weather main process ended, respawning init: indicator-weather main process ended, respawning init: indicator-weather main process (6712) killed by TERM signal init: indicator-weather main process ended, respawning init: indicator-weather main process ended, respawning init: Failed to spawn indicator-weather main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory init: unity-panel-service main process ended, respawning I am unsure this was the reason or not, but I mentioned because it can be a related issue or so. After some hours of work, the desktop felt more and more slower with aggressive swapping. According to top (sorted by memory usage) unity- panel-service was at the top with 40% of memory usage! I had to kill unity-panel-service (it was re-spawned after all) to restore my system into a usable state again. Currently I am waiting for the problem to show up again to append this report, but not so much till now. I am not sure about the connection between these issues, or related at all. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: unity-services 7.1.2+13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: [core,commands] Date: Mon Oct 21 16:25:45 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-01 (598 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.2) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-20 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1242735/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp