Public bug reported: According to GNOME System Monitor, the cpufreq-applet I have in the top panel of GNOME is currently using 376MB of RAM, after 8 hours uptime. At system start it's more respectable, in the single digits, the amount of memory it uses gradually climbs as I leave the system on longer. If I hover over one of the icons, left-click or right-click, the RAM use goes up by a few hundred kilobytes. Opening 'About' or 'Preferences' make sit jump even more. There are 4 instances of the applet, one for each of the two (hyperthreaded) cores; the system is a Thinkpad T420, with a dual- core Intel i5-2520M processor.
This is on Ubuntu 16.04.1, all updates installed, using the version of gnome-applets which is in the default Ubuntu repositories. ** Affects: gnome-applets (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: According to GNOME System Monitor, the cpufreq-applet I have in the top panel of GNOME is currently using 376MB of RAM, after 8 hours uptime. At system start it's more respectable, in the single digits, the amount of memory it uses gradually climbs as I leave the system on longer. If I hover over one of the icons, left-click or right-click, the RAM use goes up by a few hundred kilobytes. Opening 'About' or 'Preferences' make sit - jump even more. There are 4 instances of the applet, for each of the two - (hyperthreaded) cores; the system is a Thinkpad T420, with a dual-core - Intel i5-2520M processor. + jump even more. There are 4 instances of the applet, one for each of the + two (hyperthreaded) cores; the system is a Thinkpad T420, with a dual- + core Intel i5-2520M processor. This is on Ubuntu 16.04.1, all updates installed, using the version of gnome-applets which is in the default Ubuntu repositories. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614412 Title: cpufreq-applet uses huge amount of RAM To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/1614412/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs