[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
Launchpad has imported 12 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486764. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2009-02-21T23:09:53+00:00 Nadim wrote: Description of problem: gnome-panel appears to have a memory leak that may consume up to 4GB of memory within 24 hours if the program is left running. By default, gnome-panel runs, and is necessary, on Fedora 10 installations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GNOME 2.24.3 How reproducible: Here are my gnome-panel settings: I have gnome-panel running on a dual-monitor setup, only on the main monitor. I'm using kmod-nvidia, and compiz. I have verified that the memory leak is indeed coming from gnome-panel using top. gnome-panel is using a transparency effect and runs the following widgets: NetworkManager icon, sound icon, date and time, fast user switching, desktop icon, virtual desktop, and taskbar. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gnome-terminal 2. Configure it as above Actual results: Everything runs perfectly but with a huge memory leak that leads eventually to Fedora being unable to fork new processes. Expected results: gnome-panel without any memory leaking. Additional info: N/A Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- panel/+bug/385067/comments/0 On 2009-06-23T19:32:26+00:00 Alex wrote: I believe this is still present in Fedora 11, gnome-panel-2.26.2-1.fc11. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- panel/+bug/385067/comments/6 On 2009-07-09T17:48:32+00:00 Christian wrote: I can confirm that it is still present in Fedora 11, gnome- panel-2.26.2-1.fc11.x86_64 and gnome-panel-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64(from updates-testing). I am using wallpapoz to change the background periodically, and every time the wallpaper changes, memory usage of gnome-panel goes up. Disabling compiz does not help. Walkaround: disable transparency in gnome-panel and restart gnome-panel. Memory usage of gnome-panel then stays around 10 MB, even with compiz and wallpapoz enabled. Transparency of gnome-panel can also be enabled within compiz with the opacity settings for "Dock"-type windows. While this affects the transparency of all the icons as well, it does not lead to the memory leak. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- panel/+bug/385067/comments/7 On 2009-07-09T21:09:00+00:00 Alex wrote: I'm using the default FC11 config; no compiz, no transparency, no wallpaper changing. I have a total of three gnome-panels, one for the Window List and Show Desktop on top of one for the menus, several launchers, Music Applet, seahorse-applet, Pulse Audio Volume Control, gweather, update applet, tracker, sound preferences, Bluetooth applet, Tomboy, User switch applet and Clock. Along the right vertical edge, I have another panel with sensors-applet and system monitor. gnome-panel can use upto 4GB whilst I leave the desktop idle and blanked for ~10 hours. Killing it brings everything back to normal. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- panel/+bug/385067/comments/8 On 2009-07-29T17:34:00+00:00 Alex wrote: Doesn't seem as bad since recent gnome-panel-2.26.3-1.fc11 update, though I see nothing in its changelog to indicate bugfix. Perhaps a fix in some other recently-updated GNOME library? Memory usage still suspiciously high and rising, though, just not into the GB range. :-] Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- panel/+bug/385067/comments/9 On 2009-08-04T22:10:35+00:00 Alex wrote: I saw it again this morning. Most days I run a check on my md RAID arrays (e.g. 'echo check >/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action'), but I've not been doing that for the last week or so. Is there any possibility that gnome-panel, or some library it uses, doesn't respond well to IO operations taking rather longer than normal? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- panel/+bug/385067/comments/10 On 2009-08-19T10:02:54+00:00 Alex wrote: OK, for me, gnome-panel's memory leak appears to definitely be caused by an md sync_action check happening in the background. To reproduce: 1. /home in a LVM LV in VG in a PV on a md RAID1 array (e.g. /dev/md3) 2. Log into a GNOME session that includes gnome-panel 3. As root, echo check >/sys/block/md3/m
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: gnome-panel Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 Title: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/385067/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Fedora) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Fedora) Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
The bugwatch points to the fedora bug tracker, not upstream. ** Also affects: gnome-panel (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486764 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: gnome-panel Importance: Unknown => Undecided ** Changed in: gnome-panel Status: Confirmed => New ** Changed in: gnome-panel Remote watch: Red Hat Bugzilla #486764 => None -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
** Changed in: gnome-panel Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #486764 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486764 ** Also affects: gnome-panel via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486764 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
The issue is an upstream one and the ubuntu team doesn't have the ressource to work on that especially that it seems to happen to one user only but and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME) ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => Low ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
Here's a log over a couple hours. Memory use in the valgrind process gradually crept up from 197M to 270M during this time. ** Attachment added: "valgrind.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27717683/valgrind.log -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem. ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 385067] Re: gnome-panel consumes excessive memory
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27683123/Dependencies.txt -- gnome-panel consumes excessive memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
