Your most recent post was discouraging: if the brightest minds of Canonical aren't immediately clear how to trace the single largest problem undermining my productive use of Kubuntu, how do I stand a chance? :-( But I now have a couple of hunches to offer. So far, these are only hunches, which means that I am not yet able to substantiate them with evidence.
My first suspected villain is Adobe Flash --- a popular but proprietary closed-source product. My second suspected villain is the browser (which could be any one or all of the three Firefox versions (3.0, 3.5, 3.6pre) or chromium-browser, as the Google Chrome browser is called in the .ppa development repo). Testing the hunches has started with a clean Kubuntu installation from the karmic RC release yesterday. So far, I have installed neither Flash nor any of the suspect browsers (although I am downloading them and some other stuff as I write). This session has only been up ten hours, so it is very early to start drawing conclusions. But so far, the dbus-daemon is taking only 0.5% of available memory. After this long Firefox/Chrome/Flash --- with the foolishly large number of tabs that I often have open --- would normally already be well over 10% and heading fast for over 20%. Tastes vary. For my taste, Konqueror is too much of a hair shirt to be enjoyable in daily use and although I was once a paying customer of Opera, its most recent releases have not been to my taste either. So I will install Firefox, Chrome and Flash. But I will not enable Flash in Chrome. (P.S.: The Flash version will not be from the repos, it will be Adobe's 64-bit beta direct from the Adobe web site, which I check at least once a month as part of an overall system maintenance checklist.) In addition to AdBlockPlus, I will ensure that Flashblock is installed in Firefox with the most restrictive settings available. After that has been running a few days, I will report back the dbus- daemon usage, and generate a massif.out file, it it appears to be indicated. Thank you for all your work on this issue. -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 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
