** Description changed: According to GNOME System Monitor, the cpufreq-applet I have in the top panel of GNOME is currently using 376MB of RAM, after 8 hours uptime. At - system start it's more respectable, in the single digits, the amount of + system start it's more respectable, in the single digits. The amount of memory it uses gradually climbs as I leave the system on longer. If I hover over one of the icons, left-click or right-click, the RAM use goes - up by a few hundred kilobytes. Opening 'About' or 'Preferences' make sit + up by a few hundred kilobytes. Opening 'About' or 'Preferences' makes it jump even more. There are 4 instances of the applet, one for each of the two (hyperthreaded) cores; the system is a Thinkpad T420, with a dual- - core Intel i5-2520M processor. + core Intel i5-2520M processor. Removing one instance of the applet does + nothing, removing all of them results in the RAM use dropping to zero. This is on Ubuntu 16.04.1, all updates installed, using the version of gnome-applets which is in the default Ubuntu repositories.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-applets in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614412 Title: cpufreq-applet uses huge amount of RAM Status in gnome-applets package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: According to GNOME System Monitor, the cpufreq-applet I have in the top panel of GNOME is currently using 376MB of RAM, after 8 hours uptime. At system start it's more respectable, in the single digits. The amount of memory it uses gradually climbs as I leave the system on longer. If I hover over one of the icons, left-click or right-click, the RAM use goes up by a few hundred kilobytes. Opening 'About' or 'Preferences' makes it jump even more. There are 4 instances of the applet, one for each of the two (hyperthreaded) cores; the system is a Thinkpad T420, with a dual-core Intel i5-2520M processor. Removing one instance of the applet does nothing, removing all of them results in the RAM use dropping to zero. This is on Ubuntu 16.04.1, all updates installed, using the version of gnome-applets which is in the default Ubuntu repositories. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/1614412/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp