Created attachment 429037 [details] screenshot of HTOP output as I write this .... Description of problem:I see from htop output sorted by resident memory that the sensor panel on my XFCE desktop is currently taking 412M of RAM, after being logged in for 3 days now .... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xfce4-sensors-plugin.x86_64 1.0.0-1.fc12 How reproducible: log into XFCE desktop w/ sensor panel active & watch it for a few days .... Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: 412M of RAM after ~3 days .... Expected results: maybe a few hundred KB of RAM .... Additional info:
Thanks for your report, I forwarded it upstream as http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6539
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Bug still appears in F14. Upgrading and removing NEEDINFO.
William, could you try to reproduce it over some hours and watch how many bytes are leaked approximately in what time period? And please attach your user configuration. The following command will give the file name. ID=`ps --no-headers -o args -C xfce4-sensors-plugin |sed -e "s,.\+ id ,," -e "s, .\+,,"` && ls ~/.config/xfce4/panel/xfce4-sensors-plugin-${ID}.rc I hope this information can help to debug.
This might also be of help: http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/panel_plugin_debug
Unfortunately this bug rendered XFCE useless for me (I usually login & stay there for days/weeks at a time, & the memory leak precluded that :-( ), so I am not using XFCE at the moment. Someone else said it was still there, maybe you could check w/ them, sorry :-/ .... IIRC, the leak rate was in the 200-ish MB/day range, give or take. I have 2 GB of RAM on this box & it was all soaked up in less than a week. HTH ....
I cannot reproduce the problem. My laptop is running for 11 days now and the sensors-plugin only takes 0.2% memory. However I am not using lm_sensors (and upstream thinks that libsensors is to blame). Anyway, this will be investigated further upstream.