It may be caused by a memory leak in notify-osd (the same config as Philipp Specht). I'm using Exaile 0.3.1.1 and it was slow today, even graying out. I've noticed that notify-osd was using a lot of memory (>500MB!). Then it suddenly started to use more and more memory and I had to kill the notify-osd process (in about 5 minutes, it used 2GB and the system was starting to swap). After that, it's still using a lot of memory.
I found a way to reproduce this abnormal memory usage: 1) run Exaile (I have a song in the playlist) 2) look at the memory usage of the process "notify-osd" 3) move the mouse over Exaile's icon in the notification area. A notification is displayed (the title + author of the song) 4) look at the memory usage of the process "notify-osd" Every time I repeat the steps 2) to 4) I can see that notify-osd is using more memory. For example, doing that 3 times, using the command: date;ps xa -o pid,rss,%mem,cmd|grep osd I get: mercredi 8 septembre 2010, 10:29:26 (UTC+0200) 4565 974420 24.0 /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd mercredi 8 septembre 2010, 10:29:33 (UTC+0200) 4565 1021684 25.2 /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd mercredi 8 septembre 2010, 10:29:37 (UTC+0200) 4565 1057132 26.1 /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd Another info, I don't know if it's related: for the last 3-4 days, I put the computer in hibernate mode every night. -- OSD hangs up applications leading to them greying out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347444 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
