Public bug reported: empathy process takes almost 1G of RSS memory, that's way too much and looks like leak as soon as RSS grows over time.
Another symptom is lots of duplicate open files, $HOME/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite is opened 160 times according to lsof: $ lsof -p 3970 | awk '{print $(NF)}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '($1 > 1)' 8 anon_inode 2 /dev/pts/27 160 /home/darkk/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite 2 /home/darkk/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite-shm 160 /home/darkk/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite-wal 2 pipe 6 socket 2 /SYSV00000000 Full lsof output is attached as lsof.txt ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: empathy 3.8.6-0ubuntu9.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Oct 24 18:44:33 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-07-14 (1198 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426) SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-12 (165 days ago) ** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty ** Attachment added: "lsof -p 3970 >lsof.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385321/+attachment/4243686/+files/lsof.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385321 Title: memory and file descriptor leak in empathy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1385321/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs