This started affecting me as well this week. Killed all Evolution processes and indicator-datet then restarted Evo. Seems OK for now but don't fancy my chances after next restart.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633319 Title: memory leak in indicator-datetime Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading from 16.04 to 16.10 on the System76 Serval WS indicator-datetime-service is consuming all the system memory from 3.7GB up to 32 GB in 30 seconds. The system kills the indicator- datetime-service process and indicator-datetime-service restarts and memory consumption repeats until killed again. All swap memory is consumed in this pattern. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: indicator-datetime 15.10+16.10.20160820.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Oct 14 00:12:00 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: indicator-datetime UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-14 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1633319/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp