Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-notifier-kde
I've seen a memory leak in update-notifier-kde package. Each time you update the package list with the aptitude update method, the memory used by the process increases but never decreases then. How-to-reproduce : ---------------------------------------- DO: launch the update-notifier-kde process DO: run top or htop and sort processes upon the used memory. DO: launch several times an aptitude update command. You can run the following command as root in order to save time : for i in `seq 1 50`; do sudo aptitude update; done EXPECT: the memory used by the update-notifier-kde process increases a lot, more than 100 MB used at the end of the for loop !!! The issue should have a very low impact in most of the cases, but for a production machine that runs 24/7 this can become resource-critical. Release used : Kubuntu 8.10 Package revision : 0.9 I suspect the issue from coming from one of the following lines (my knowledge of Python is NONE ;-) ) : Line 103: self.new_dist = metaRelease.new_dist // Any garbage connection of the old new_dist reference if any ? Line 124: self.new_dist = metaRelease.new_dist // Same comment ** Affects: update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Memory leak in update-notifier-kde https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289264 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to update-notifier-kde in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs