Bug 77470

Summary:	rhn-applet-gui consumes a large portion of memory for just a resident applet
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael Lee Yohe <michael>
Component:	rhn-applet	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	mitr, trog
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Description Michael Lee Yohe 2002-11-07 16:09:07 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
rhn-applet-gui sits in the Gnome panel display a few different icons.  Every
once in a while, it will sit near the top of "top" while it is doing its checking.

 3533 myohe     15   0 16240  15M  9868 S     0.0  2.1   0:21 rhn-applet-gui

16M of memory consumed.  Nautilus does much more (draws the desktop, displays
folders, etc.) and it consumes only a mere 4M more than the applet in just a
normal session.  I suppose it is do to the fact that rhn-applet-gui is a
resident Python session versus being programmed in leaner non-scripting language
like Nautilus.  Nonetheless - it's a hog for a really nice utility.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -qf `which rhn-applet-gui`
rhn-applet-2.0.0-28

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure that you've opted to have RHN's little update applet loaded in your panel.
2. Check top and search for "rhn-applet-gui"

	

Actual Results:  Lots of memory consumed.

Expected Results:  Not so much memory consumed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dennis Grant 2002-12-24 13:53:24 UTC

<AOL>

Me too.

Been chasing memory leaks on my system. Found and fixed one in the gweather
applet, now the rhn applet appears next in line:

ps -e -o size,args --sort size (truncated)

11404 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2
15340 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui --sm-client-id default5
15972 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
30828 /usr/local/netscape/netscape-bin
284072 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth

DG

Comment 2 Daniel Veillard 2003-04-08 09:32:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69467 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:06 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.