Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 253658
clock-panel slowly grows in memory usage to become largest process
Last modified: 2009-01-09 02:13:10 EST
Description of problem: The clock-applet, when initially started takes about 11 MB of resident memory. As it runs it slowly grows. And grows. I've seen it grow to more than 110 MB resident in 5 days. On my machines which has only 256 MB of RAM, the system starts doing a lot of swapping. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-panel-2.19.6-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Gnome, when it get's too large kill clock-applet and OK the reload. 2. 3. Actual results: After several days, the clock-applet grows to be larger than firefox with 20 tabs open. Expected results: The clock-applet should stay at it's original size or only slightly larger. Additional info: These results are from at Pentium II (300 MHz) notebook with 256 MB of RAM. My Pentium M notebook does not see this problem, but the clock-applet is current using 35 MB of resident RAM after the system had been up for 25 hours. It has 1.25 GB or RAM though. The problem started several weeks ago. I'm going to create a script to capture the memory usage hourly.
With only 6 hours of monitoring, clock-applet is increasing in size on both machines at just under 1 MB per hour.
Chris, you've seen this before too yea? I'm going to run the clock-applet under valgrind today and see what shows up.
Paul, do you keep any appointments or tasks in evolution (that show up when you click the clock applet) ?
Evolution is not installed. Never used it. Removed it less than a week ago when spamassassin had a dependency problem (erasing spamassassin erased evolution). This problem predates this event. When after I clicked on the date, and then click it again to close the calendar, the size nearly doubled. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4273 dickson 20 0 56184 36m 9164 S 0.0 2.9 4:35.00 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 57208 37m 9164 S 0.0 3.0 4:45.82 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 58104 38m 9164 S 2.0 3.1 4:56.61 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 59128 39m 9164 S 0.0 3.2 5:07.36 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 60152 40m 9164 S 0.0 3.2 5:18.11 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 61048 41m 9164 S 0.0 3.3 5:28.89 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 62072 42m 9164 S 0.0 3.4 5:39.69 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 63096 43m 9164 S 0.0 3.5 5:50.48 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 64120 44m 9164 S 0.0 3.6 6:01.27 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 65016 45m 9164 S 0.0 3.6 6:12.06 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 66040 46m 9164 S 0.0 3.7 6:22.86 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 67064 47m 9164 S 2.0 3.8 6:33.22 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 68088 35m 6048 S 2.0 2.8 6:44.31 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 98.1m 57m 17m S 0.0 4.6 7:00.48 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 119m 58m 17m S 0.0 4.7 7:16.15 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 120m 59m 17m S 0.0 4.8 7:27.64 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 120m 60m 17m S 2.0 4.9 7:39.09 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 121m 61m 17m S 0.0 4.9 7:50.53 clock-applet 4273 dickson 20 0 122m 62m 17m S 0.0 5.0 8:01.97 clock-applet The line with the drop in RES is when the system was coming out of hibernation.
Sorry for the random bug spam, Ray. Talking through the straw... Package Change Request ====================== Package Name: gnome-panel New Branches: F-8 I want to add some F9 material to the panel
in reply to comment #5: cvs done.
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