Bug 908003

Summary:	Suspected Memory Leak in clock-applet
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrew M. Shooman <shooman>
Component:	gnome-applets	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	18	CC:	cse.cem+redhatbugz, dennis, jforbes, oleg, rstrode, shooman
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Description Andrew M. Shooman 2013-02-05 16:07:48 UTC

Description of problem:
clock-applet consumes 1.5 GB of memory after Fedora 18 has been up for only 16 hours!  Memory leak suspected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
(Cannot determine version number of clock-applet).

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set System Settings->Details->Graphics->Forced Fallback Mode On in user account
2.  Reboot Fedora 18
3.  Login to user account
4.  Let OS sit idle
5.  Check memory consumption of clock-applet
  
Actual results:
clock-applet consumes 1.5 GB of memory in 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 after 16 hours of uptime

Expected results:
clock-applet consumes 6.7 MB of memory in 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 after 5 days of uptime

Additional info:
If you need any more information, please let me know.  (Please tell me how to determine the version number of clock-applet).  Thanks.

Comment 1 Andrew M. Shooman 2013-02-05 18:47:06 UTC

Version Information for gnome-applets with suspected memory leak:

Name        : gnome-applets
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 3.5.92
Release     : 3.fc18
Size        : 6.4 M
Repo        : fedora/18/x86_64


Version Information for gnome-applets working correctly:

Name        : gnome-applets
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 3.4.1
Release     : 1.fc17
Size        : 6.4 M
Repo        : fedora/17/x86_64

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2013-02-14 17:05:48 UTC

This is confirmed. Over the weekend clock-applet was consuming 5.2G of res memory on my laptop with F18. Killing and restarting clock-applet will drop it, but it consumes memory at almost 2GB/day.

Comment 3 Oleg Tsarev 2013-03-29 06:31:31 UTC

Yes, I see same things - eat a lot of memory.

Comment 4 Conrad Meyer 2013-04-23 04:41:04 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 952763 ***