As a temporary workaround, I've been running this script in background which kills indicator-session-service when it hits 500M of rss:
#!/bin/sh while sleep 1; do rss=$(ps -C indicator-session-service -o rss=) if [ -n "$rss" ] && [ "$rss" -gt 500000 ]; then pkill -f indicator-session-service -u hyperair && \ echo "[$(date)] killed at $rss" fi done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-session in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523698 Title: indicator-session is leaking memory on ubuntu 15.10 Status in indicator-session package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: The `indicator-session-service` is slowly leaking memory, after a while it has used up over 10 gigabytes of RAM and swap and the entire system freezes. I've reinstalled the entire OS, and even started using a new home folder, but it's still happening. indicator-session: Geïnstalleerd: 12.10.5+15.10.20150915-0ubuntu1 Kandidaat: 12.10.5+15.10.20150915-0ubuntu1 Versietabel: *** 12.10.5+15.10.20150915-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/1523698/+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